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Electron Impact Single Detachment (EISD) of F- has been studied using the heavy ion storage ring CRYRING at the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden. F- ions stored in the ring were merged with an electron beam in one of the ring sections. Neutral F atoms produced in the EISD process were detected in the zero-degree direction using a surface barrier detector. The threshold for the detachment process was found to be around 7.6 eV, thus more than twice the binding energy of F-. The cross-sections increased smoothly up to 55 eV where it reached a maximum of 1.9×10 -16 cm 2. At higher energies a slow decrease of the cross-section was observed, which follows the energy dependence predicted by the Bethe-Born approximation. The experiment showed that CRYRING can be used favourably for studies of anions, and several experiments are forthcoming.
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Received 14 June 2000 and Received in final form 11 September 2000
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Andersson, K., Hanstorp, D., Neau, A. et al. Electron impact single detachment on the F- ions using the heavy ion storage ring CRYRING: Cross-section determination. Eur. Phys. J. D 13, 323–328 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170248
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170248