Differential oscillator strengths for chlorine dioxide, OClO, produced by electron impact energy-loss spectroscopy

Abstract

Electron impact spectroscopy has been used for the first time to obtain energy-loss spectra for chlorine dioxide, OClO, over an energy range 2.5 to 12.5 eV. The differential oscillator strength (DOS) obtained from the energy-loss spectrum is compared with the DOS obtained from optical measurements. Oscillator strengths for several transitions have been calculated from a summation of the DOS and comparisons are also made with previous optical data.