We report on the first experimental observation of a new threshold behavior observed in the 5(2)G partial channel in photodetachment of K(-). It arises from the repulsive polarization interaction between the detached electron and the residual K(5(2)G) atom, which has a large negative dipole polarizability. In order to account for the observation in the K(5(2)G) channel, we have developed a semiclassical model that predicts an exponential energy dependence for the cross section. The measurements were made with collinear laser-ion beams and a resonance ionization detection scheme.
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