Abstract
Although positron binding to van der Waals intermolecularly bonded clusters of non-polar carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules was experimentally suggested, the positron binding feature has been poorly understood. We investigated positron affinities (PAs) by means of multi-component configuration interaction calculations for various structures of (CO2)n (n = 1-5) obtained by the single-component artificial force induced reaction (SC-AFIR) method. Our calculations showed that CO2 monomers do not bind a positron, whereas positron affinities for clusters tend to increase with an increase in the cluster size. Our regression analyses for determining PAs with electrostatic and structural properties of conformations revealed a significant conformer effect due to which structural characteristics such as flatness may have a strong influence on PA for loosely bound positronic complexes of (CO2)n.
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