Highly correlated electronic bounding and spin effect: confirmation of an autodetaching state of O${}^{-}$

Abstract

The existence of an auto-detaching state of O${}^{-}$ with a lifetime on the scale of a hundred nanoseconds is demonstrated both experimentally and theoretically. The O${}^{-}$ lifetime values are determined using two recently developed methods. The experimental approach is based on a derivation from measured electron-loss cross sections combined with time-of-flight spectrometry. For the theoretical approach, the continued Green's function within the formalism of Fano-Feshbach is applied. We present the measured lifetime value of $100\pm 10\text{ ns}$. The calculated lifetime value is 75 ns, and is associated with the (2p${}^3$3s${}^2$)${}^4$S state of O${}^{-}$. We discuss how the existence of a 100-ns-lifetime oxygen metastable anion can impact the modeling of oxygen-containing systems.

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