Comment on: Is the Hydrated Electron Vertical Detachment Genuinely Bimodal? J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 4910-4913
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2020-01-19Typ
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Abstract
In a recent article, David Bartels addresses the issue of the band shape of the genuine binding energy spectrum of the hydrated electron. He essentially claims that the genuine binding energy of the hydrated electron must be Gaussian in shape independent of the photon energy used for ionization, contrary to what was found in our previous work for excitations energies in the UV (3.6-5.8 eV photon energy). Further, he alleges that the asymmetric (bimodal) distribution found for the genuine binding energy in our previous work must have resulted from deficiencies in the scattering cross sections used in the scattering calculations. Bartels concludes that these deficiencies arise from an allegedly wrong value of -1.0eV for the escape barrier used in the original fitting procedure to determine the scattering cross section. In the following, we show that these claims are unfounded and based on partly incorrect assumptions. Mehr anzeigen
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03961 - Signorell, Ruth / Signorell, Ruth
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arxiv:2001.06915 [physics.chem-ph]ETH Bibliographie
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