Formic Acid Ionization and Fragmentation by Multiphoton Absorption

Autor: Ignacio Alvarez, T. Bautista, Alfonso Guerrero, Carmen Cisneros, E. Prieto, C. F. Betancourt
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Nuclear Physics, Material Sciences, Radiation and Applications. 8:197-201
ISSN: 2321-9289
2321-8649
DOI: 10.15415/jnp.2021.82026
Popis: Multiphoton absorption is an intensity dependent nonlinear effect related to the excitation of virtual intermediate states. In the present work, multiphoton ionization and dissociation of the formic acid molecule (HCOOH) by the interaction with photons from 532 Nd: YAG laser at different intensities are discussed, using different carrier gases. The induced fragmentation-ionization patterns show up to 17 fragments and dissociation channels are proposed. Some evidence of small clusters formation and conformational memory from the ratio of the detected products, CO+ and CO2+, on the light of the available results, it is possible to conclude that they arise from trans and cis formic acid. Our results are compared with those obtained in other laboratories under different experimental conditions, some of them show only partial agreement and differences are discussed. Following the Keldysh description it is possible, from our experimental parameters, characterize our results, in the multiphoton absorption regime.
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