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The catalogue of negative ions in superfluid helium has been extended using the example of Ar−, Kr−, and Xe−. Such objects cannot exist in vacuum, since the polarization attraction of an electron to the inert A atom is insufficient for the formation of the bound state A−. However, these objects exist in helium as stable or metastable with a very long lifetime. The effect is due to the electron localization in liquid helium. If a mixture of excited A* atoms and electrons is prepared in the gas phase above liquid helium, the reaction A* + e = A*− becomes possible for all atoms of the periodic table. Such charges can be immersed into liquid helium by the electric field. In this case, the radiative decay A*− = A + e allowed in vacuum can be forbidden in liquid. This leads to the formation of the new unique objects A−, which can exist in liquid helium but are absent in nature. The size of such charged formations has been determined and is close the radius of a usual electron bubble in helium.
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Original Russian Text © A.M. Dyugaev, P.D. Grigor’ev, E.V. Lebedeva, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 94, No. 9, pp. 774–778.
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Dyugaev, A.M., Grigor’ev, P.D. & Lebedeva, E.V. Negative ions Ar−, Kr−, and Xe− in superfluid helium. Jetp Lett. 94, 714–718 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364011210041
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