An enhanced cosmic-ray flux towards ζ Persei inferred from a laboratory study of the H3+–e- recombination rate

BJ McCall, AJ Huneycutt, RJ Saykally, TR Geballe… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
The H3+ molecular ion plays a fundamental role in interstellar chemistry, as it initiates a
network of chemical reactions that produce many molecules,. In dense interstellar clouds …

Structure and thermal history of the H-chondrite parent asteroid revealed by thermochronometry

M Trieloff, EK Jessberger, I Herrwerth, J Hopp, C Fiéni… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Abstract Our Solar System formed∼ 4.6 billion years ago from the collapse of a dense core
inside an interstellar molecular cloud. The subsequent formation of solid bodies took place …

Unified theoretical treatment of dissociative recombination of triatomic ions: Application to and

V Kokoouline, CH Greene - Physical Review A, 2003 - APS
The dissociative recombination of an H 3+ ion after it is struck by a low-energy electron is
important for understanding observations of H 3+ in diffuse interstellar clouds. At the same …

Dissociative recombination of rotationally cold

BJ McCall, AJ Huneycutt, RJ Saykally, N Djuric… - Physical Review A …, 2004 - APS
This paper presents the first dissociative recombination (DR) measurement of electrons with
rotationally and vibrationally cold H 3+ ions. A dc discharge pinhole supersonic jet source …

Mechanism for the destruction of H3+ ions by electron impact

V Kokoouline, CH Greene, BD Esry - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The rate at which the simplest triatomic ion (H3+) dissociates following recombination with a
low-energy electron has been measured in numerous experiments,,,,,,,,,. This process is …

Convergent Close-Coupling Approach to Electron Impact Dissociation of the Polyatomic Molecule and Its Isotopologues

RK Horton, MV Pak, I Bray, DV Fursa - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
Cross sections for electron impact dissociative excitation and ionization in scattering on
vibrationally excited levels of the ground electronic state of H 3+ and its isotopologues are …

Convergent close-coupling approach to electron scattering on : Scattering dynamics and dissociative processes

RK Horton, MV Pak, I Bray, DV Fursa - Physical Review A, 2025 - APS
Cross sections for electron impact dissociative excitation and ionization in scattering on
vibrationally excited levels of the ground electronic state of H 3+, D 3+, and T 3+ are …

Dissociative recombination of H3+ in the ground and excited vibrational states

SF dos Santos, V Kokoouline… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The article presents calculated dissociative recombination (DR) rate coefficients for H 3+⁠.
The previous theoretical work on H 3+ was performed using the adiabatic hyperspherical …

Theory of Dissociative Recombination of Triatomic Ions Applied to

V Kokoouline, CH Greene - Physical Review Letters, 2003 - APS
We propose a fully quantal description of H 3+ dissociative recombination. The new method
combines multichannel quantum defect theory, the adiabatic hyperspherical approach, and …

Parasitic computing

AL Barabasi, VW Freeh, H Jeong, JB Brockman - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Reliable communication on the Internet is guaranteed by a standard set of protocols, used
by all computers. Here we show that these protocols can be exploited to compute with the …