Fragmentation of uracil after electron capture by doubly charged ions

Autor: Oleg V. Smirnov, Michael N. Panov, Alexei A. Basalaev, Oleg S. Vasyutinskii, Vadim V. Afrosimov
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The European Physical Journal D. 69
ISSN: 1434-6079
1434-6060
DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2014-50435-5
Popis: Single electron capture from molecular uracil (C4H4N2O2) by doubly-charged He2+, C2+, and O2+ atomic ions followed by the fragmentation of uracil ions has been studied using time-of-flight mass-spectrometry at the collision velocity range 0.13–0.65 a.u. The uracil ion fragmentation mechanism has been clarified by the arrival time correlation analysis for all ion-fragments produced in a single collision. Electron capture with ionization cross section has been determined from experiment. As shown, single electron capture in reaction of uracil with C2+ leads to high fragmentation probability of the resulting uracil ion. The role of electron core rearrangement in the C2+ and O2+ atomic ions is discussed.
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