Direct Measurement of Charge Transfer Probability during Photodissociation of Few-keV OD Beam.

We have measured the photodissociation of few-keV OD molecular ions into either D + O or O + D final products. The three-dimensional momentum imaging measurements of the light and massive fragments in coincidence were enabled by using an upgraded two-detector setup. In this work, we show that absorption of a single 790 or 395 nm photon excites the OD from its electronic ground state to the B state, which dissociates to the O(S) + D dissociation limit.