Structure and Stability of the Negative Hydrogen Molecular Ion

Autor(en)

Brandon Jordon-Thaden, Holger Kreckel, Robin Golser, Dirk Schwalm, Max H. Berg, Henrik Buhr, Hubert Gnaser, Manfred Grieser, O Heber, Michael Lange, Oldrich Novotny, Steffen Novotny, Henrik B. Pedersen, Annemieke Petrignani, R Repnow, Hilel Rubinstein, Dror Shafir, Andreas Wolf, D Zajfman

Abstrakt

We present the results of a Coulomb explosion experiment that allows for the imaging of the rovibrational wave function of the metastable H(2)(-) ion. Our measurements confirm the predicted large internuclear separation of 6 a.u., and they show that the ion decays by autodetachment rather than by spontaneous dissociation. Imaging of the resulting H(2) products reveals a large angular momentum of J = 25 +/- 2, quantifying the rotation that leads to the metastability of this most fundamental molecular anion.

Organisation(en)

Isotopenphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Weizmann Institute of Science

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Band

107

Anzahl der Seiten

4

ISSN

0031-9007

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.193003

Publikationsdatum

2011

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103014 Kernphysik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/fc369fc0-c617-422d-879f-c156a3395002