Electron attachment to valence-excited CO
Abstract
The possibility of electron attachment to the valence 3 state of CO is examined using an ab initio bound-state multireference configuration interaction approach. The resulting resonance has 4- symmetry; the higher vibrational levels of this resonance state coincide with, or are nearly coincident with, levels of the parent a3 state. Collisional relaxation to the lowest vibrational levels in hot plasma situations might yield the possibility of a long-lived CO- state.
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