Publications by authors named "D S Slaughter"

We investigate the dynamics and site-selectivity in the dissociation of transient anions formed upon attachment of low energy electrons to acetic acid by anion fragment momentum imaging experiments. The resonances at 6.7 and 7.

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We applied reaction microscopy to elucidate fast non-adiabatic dissociation dynamics of deuterated water molecules after direct photo-double ionization at 61 eV with synchrotron radiation. For the very rare D+ + O+ + D breakup channel, the particle momenta, angular, and energy distributions of electrons and ions, measured in coincidence, reveal distinct electronic dication states and their dissociation pathways via spin-orbit coupling and charge transfer at crossings and seams on the potential energy surfaces. Notably, we could distinguish between direct and fast sequential dissociation scenarios.

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Introduction: Long COVID encompasses a wide range of health problems that emerge, persist, or recur following acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness. Given that the prevalence of self-reported Long COVID is highest among U.S.

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Cyanogen NCCN and cyanoacetylene HCCCN are isoelectronic molecules, and as such, they have many similar properties. We focus on the bond cleavage in these induced by the dissociative electron attachment. In both molecules, resonant electron attachment produces CN with very similar energy dependence.

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Bond-breaking in CCl dissociative electron attachment (DEA) has been studied using a velocity map imaging (VMI) spectrometer. A number of effects related to the dissociation dynamics have been revealed. The near-zero eV -wave electron attachment, which leads to the production of Cl anions, is accompanied by a very efficient intramolecular vibrational redistribution.

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