Theory of dissociative recombination of highly-symmetric polyatomic ions

Abstract

A general first-principles theory of dissociative recombination is developed for highly-symmetric molecular ions and applied to H${}_3$O${}^{+}$ and CH${}_3^{+}$, which play an important role in astrophysical, combustion, and laboratory plasma environments. The theoretical cross-sections obtained for the dissociative recombination of the two ions are in good agreement with existing experimental data from storage ring experiments.

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