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

Authors

• Gordon A. Gallup, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Paul Burrow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Ilya I. Fabrikant, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in PHYSICAL REVIEW A 80, 2009. Copyright © 2009 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

Rescigno et al. [Phys. Rev. A 80, 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 σ^*(OH) orbital. We argue that their objections do not hold up to scrutiny.