A search for chiral asymmetry in secondary electron emission from cysteine induced by longitudinally polarized electrons

Authors

K. J. Ahrendsen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kenneth Wayne Trantham, University of Nebraska at KearneyFollow
D. Tupa, Los Alamos National Laboratory
T. J. Gay, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

8-15-2023

Citation

J. Chem. Phys. 159, 074301 (2023); doi: 10.1063/5.0156419

Comments

Used by permission.

Abstract

We performed experiments searching for chirality-dependent secondary electron emission for a 141 eV longitudinally spin-polarized electron beam incident on a thick solid cysteine target. We determined the secondary electron yield by measuring the positive current produced when the cysteine target was negatively biased. No spin-dependent effects to a level of 10⁻³ were found for the secondary electron emission yield.