Abstract
Experiments with an electron cyclotron resonance ion source have been employ ed in a hunt for the elusive CH2+ ion. Our experiments do not find evidence for the existence of stable CH2+ ions. Different levels of ab initio molecular orbital theory have been employed to obtain potential energy curves for CH2+. Although scf calculations show a small minimum in the potential, post-Hartree-Fock computations indicate CH2+ states to be repulsive.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 49-59 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jan 14 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |