# Photoassociation Spectroscopy in Penning Ionization Reactions at Sub-Kelvin Temperatures.

@article{Skomorowski2016PhotoassociationSI,
title={Photoassociation Spectroscopy in Penning Ionization Reactions at Sub-Kelvin Temperatures.},
author={Wojciech Skomorowski and Yuval Shagam and Edvardas Narevicius and Christiane P. Koch},
journal={The journal of physical chemistry. A},
year={2016},
volume={120 19},
pages={
3309-15
}
}
• Published 4 January 2016
• Physics, Chemistry
• The journal of physical chemistry. A
Penning ionization reactions in merged beams with precisely controlled collision energies have been shown to accurately probe quantum mechanical effects in reactive collisions. A complete microscopic understanding of the reaction is, however, faced with two major challenges-the highly excited character of the reaction's entrance channel and the limited precision of even the best state-of-the-art ab initio potential energy surfaces. Here, we suggest photoassociation spectroscopy as a tool to…
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