Abstract
Direct experimental evidence is obtained for the occurrence of fusion in collisions between two molecules at collision energies of 200 to 500 eV in the center-of-mass frame of reference. The formed at 200 and 250 eV collision energy has a lifetime of more than 70 μs with high internal energy. Results are in good qualitative agreement with recent molecular dynamics simulations combined with density functional theory.
- Received 1 September 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.263
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