Dissociation dynamics of acetylene Rydberg states as a function of excited state lifetime

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 5231-5246

  Loffler P ^a   Wrede, E ^a   Schnieder, L ^b   Halpern, J B ^c   Jackson, W M ^d   Welge, K H ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology   (Germany)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000331981     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.477140     Document Type: Article

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68. We would be pleased to provide the experimental data to any theoretician or experimentalist who could use them in the further exploration of this system.