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Published June 18, 1982 | public
Journal Article

Mass spectrometry at low electron beam energies: A sensitive probe of vibrational excitation

Abstract

It is shown that the fragmentation pattern of n-C_8H^+_(18) produced by low-energy electron impact ionization in a modulated beam mass spectrometer is a sensitive function of the initial gas temperature. Under these conditions, mass spectrometry lends itself quite generally to the study of energy deposition and exchange in processes involving polyatomics.

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© 1982 Elsevier. Received 16 February 1982, in final form 12 April 1982. Generous support from Comision de lnvestigaciones Cientificas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires is hereby acknowledged.

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