Intermediate-energy electron-impact dissociative ionization-excitation of molecular hydrogen

Abstract

We have implemented three variants of the exterior complex scaling procedure in prolate spheroidal coordinates (PS-ECS) to study the dissociative electron impact ionization-excitation of hydrogen molecule, where the emerging electrons and one of the protons are detected in coincidence for the first time in a recent experiment. In the first variant, designated PSECS-1B, the two target electrons are treated ab initio while the interaction of the incident-scattered electron is taken into account using the first term of the Born series. In the second, PSECS-2BCD, the second Born term is introduced in the dipole approximation. In the third approach, designated PSECS-SW, applied to the ionization-excitation to the $2p\sigma_u$ level of H$_2^+$, the multi-configurational single active electron approximation is used for the target, while the interaction of the incident electron with the target is described ab initio. Our results agree partially with those of a recent experiment which is in progress.