Threshold Energies for Single Carbon Knockout from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

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العنوان: Threshold Energies for Single Carbon Knockout from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
المؤلفون: Stockett, M. H., Gatchell, M., Chen, T., de Ruette, N., Giacomozzi, L., Wolf, M., Schmidt, H. T., Zettergren, H., Cederquist, H.
المصدر: J Phys Chem Lett 2015 6 4504
سنة النشر: 2015
المجموعة: Astrophysics
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Chemical Physics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
الوصف: We have measured absolute cross sections for ultrafast (fs) single-carbon knockout from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) cations as functions of He-PAH center-of-mass collision energy in the range 10-200 eV. Classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations cover this range and extend up to 10$^5$ eV. The shapes of the knockout cross sections are well described by a simple analytical expression yielding experimental and MD threshold energies of $E_{th}^{Exp}=32.5\pm 0.4$ eV and $E_{th}^{MD}=41.0\pm 0.3$ eV, respectively. These are the first measurements of knockout threshold energies for molecules isolated \emph{in vacuo}. We further deduce semi-empirical (SE) and MD displacement energies --- \emph{i.e.} the energy transfers to the PAH molecules at the threshold energies for knockout --- of $T_{disp}^{SE}=23.3\pm 0.3$ eV and $T_{disp}^{MD}=27.0\pm 0.3$ eV. The semi-empirical results compare favorably with measured displacement energies for graphene $T_{disp}=23.6$ eV [Meyer \emph{et al.} Phys. Rev Lett. \textbf{108} 196102 (2012) and \textbf{110} 239902 (2013)].
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02080
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05742
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1511.05742
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02080