Electron collisions with the CH(2)O-H(2)O complex
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO |
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18/04/2012
18/04/2012
2009
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Resumo |
We report cross sections for elastic collisions of low-energy electrons with the CH(2)O-H(2)O complex. We employed the Schwinger multichannel method with pseudopotentials in the static-exchange and in the static-exchange-polarization approximations for energies from 0.1 to 20 eV. We considered four different hydrogen-bonded structures for the complex that were generated by classical Monte Carlo simulations. Our aim is to investigate the effect of the water molecule on the pi* shape resonance of formaldehyde. Previous studies reported a pi* shape resonance for CH(2)O at around 1 eV. The resonance positions of the complexes appear at lower energies in all cases due to the mutual polarization between the two molecules. This indicates that the presence of water may favor dissociation by electron impact and may lead to an important effect on strand breaking in wet DNA by electron impact. FINEP Fundacao Araucaria CNPq under the NSF/CNPq program[490415/2007-5] |
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A, v.80, n.6, 2009 1050-2947 http://producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/16086 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.062710 |
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eng |
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AMER PHYSICAL SOC |
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Physical Review A |
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restrictedAccess Copyright AMER PHYSICAL SOC |
Palavras-Chave | #IMPACT EXCITATION #SCATTERING #FORMALDEHYDE #MOLECULES #PSEUDOPOTENTIALS #H-2 #Optics #Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical |
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