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A dipole-driven path for electron and positron attachments to gas-phase uracil and pyrimidine molecules: a quantum scattering analysis

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Electron and positron scattering processes in the gas-phase are analysed for uracil and pyrimidine molecules using a multichannel quantum approach at energies close to threshold. The special effects on the scattering dynamics induced by the large dipole moments in both molecules on the spatial features of the continuum leptonic wavefunctions are here linked to the possible bound states of the Rydberg-like molecular anions or ‘positroned’ molecules which could be reached via further couplings with molecular internal degrees of freedom.

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  1. Institute of Ion Physics, The University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Fabio Carelli & Francesco Antonio Gianturco

  2. Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    Francesco Antonio Gianturco

  3. Department of Theoretical Physics and Quantum Informatics, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdansk, University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza, 11/12, 80-952, Gdansk, Poland

    Jan Franz

  4. CNR-ISMN and University of Rome ‘Sapienza’, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Mauro Satta

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Carelli, F., Gianturco, F.A., Franz, J. et al. A dipole-driven path for electron and positron attachments to gas-phase uracil and pyrimidine molecules: a quantum scattering analysis. Eur. Phys. J. D 69, 143 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2015-60096-5

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