Stability of the Ground State Vinylidene Anion
- 7 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (6) , 1128-1131
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.1128
Abstract
A technique to measure very low collisionless decay rates of ionic species has been applied at a new electrostatic storage ring to obtain the rate for spontaneous rearrangement of the vinylidene anion to neutral acetylene. The measurement yields a rate of , corresponding to a natural lifetime of the vinylidene anion of .
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