| | Rotational and Vibrational Autoionization in Ammonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Double-resonance ionization spectra via selected rotational levels of the C'(0100) state of ammonia show direct evidence for rotational-electronic perturbations between Rydberg series converging to different rotational states of NH_3^+ X(0100), and for rotational autoionization when it is energetically allowed. |
 | | The simplicity of the double resonance spectra is quite striking, and allows the characterization of the rotational autoionization process as a function of \Delta N^+, and \Delta K^+. |
 | | Rotational autoionization by \Delta N^+ = -1, \Delta K^+ = 0 is found to be the dominant decay mechanism, and competes effectively with vibrational autoionization into the NH_3^+ X(0000) continuum. |
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