Reply to “Comment on ‘Electron-induced bond breaking at low energies in HCOOH and glycine: The role of very short-livedσ∗anion states’ ”

Abstract

Rescigno et al. [Phys. Rev. A80, 046701 (2009)] criticized our theoretical treatment of dissociative electron attachment in formic acid in which we show that this process can be explained by electron attachment into the temporary negative ion state formed by occupation of the ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}^{\ensuremath{\ast}}(\text{OH})$ orbital. We argue that their objections do not hold up to scrutiny.