Penning Ionization Processes Studied by Electron Spectroscopy

Andrew J Yencha

doi:10.5702/massspec1953.27.135

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Keywords: Penning ionization electron spectroscopy, Photoelectron spectroscopy, Energy transfer processes, Metastable rare gas atoms, Particle-particle collision dynamics, Ionization potentials

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1979 Volume 27 Issue 3 Pages 135-156

DOI https://doi.org/10.5702/massspec1953.27.135

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Published: September 30, 1979 Received: July 25, 1979 Available on J-STAGE: June 28, 2010 Accepted: - Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: AUTHOR Details: Wrong : Andrew J Yencha¹⁾
Right : Andrew J Yencha

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1) This article is adapted from the text of a lecture given by the author at the 26th annual meeting of the Mass Spectroscopy Society of Japan

Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: KEYWORD Details: Wrong : Penning ionization electron spectroscopy Photoelectron spectroscopy Energy transfer processes Metastable rare gas atoms Particle-particle collision dynamics Ionization potentials
Right : Penning ionization electron spectroscopy, Photoelectron spectroscopy, Energy transfer processes, Metastable rare gas atoms, Particle-particle collision dynamics, Ionization potentials

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Abstract

The technique of measuring the kinetic energy of electrons ejected from atomic or molecular species as a result of collisional energy transfer between a metastable excited rare gas atom and an atom or molecule is known as Penning ionization spectroscopy. Like the analogous photoionization process of photoelectron spectroscopy, a considerable amount of information has been gained about the ionization potentials of numerous molecular systems. It is, in fact, through the combined analyses of photoelectron and Penning electron spectra that affords a probe of the particle-particle interactions that occur in the Penning process. In this paper a short survey of the phenomenon of Penning ionization, as studied by electron spectroscopy, will be presented as it pertains to the ionization processes of simple molecules by metastable excited atoms.

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