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Angular Momentum Partitioning In The Dissociation Of Diatomic Molecules, Timothy J. Gay, J. D. Bozek, J. E. Furst, Gordon A. Gallup, A. S. Green, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, J. R. Machacek, J. W. Maseberg, K. W. Mclaughlin, Mark A. Rosenberry

Timothy J. Gay Publications

We discuss recent experiments that study the transfer of angular momentum from a projectile to the residual target in collisions between the simple diatomic molecules H₂ and N₂ and spin-polarized electrons or circularly-polarized photons. We observe the fluorescence of both the atomic fragments and excited molecular states, and measure the circular polarization fraction of this light, P₃. The incident electron energies range from 10 to 100 eV; the incident photon energies from 33 to 38 eV.