Abstract
Ionization of water with energy transfers close to the 2a1 inner valence orbital is accompanied by a fast electronic rearrangement driven by electron relaxation and electron-electron correlations. Quasi-degenerate single vacancy and satellites one-electron-two-vacancies excited states in outer shells are created and leave their fingerprints in the three-body fragmentation pattern. Single vacancy states have been associated with Auger decay and double ionization. Satellite excited states are here convincingly assigned to single ionization. We focus on the H0 + O+ + H0 fragmentation by electron impact taking advantage of the high sensitivity of the delayed extraction time-of-flight technique to uncover kinematic attributes of suprathermal O+ ions. It is found that the H0 ejections occur under a large angular rearrangement, in an approximate linear geometry, and leaving the O+ near at rest, with ∼50% of the O+ produced in water fragmentation by swift electrons presenting this feature.
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