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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
1995
Abstract
We have searched for evidence of electron circular dichroism, the preferential
transmission of longirudinally polarized electrons lhrough a chiral medium, using stereoisomers of camphor. Such an effect was seen by Campbell and Farago in 1987 for 5 eV elecvons. Within our detection limit (~0.02%) we have not observed asymmehic transmission at either an incident electron energy of 1 eV or 5 eV. ln preparation for this inquiry, we also measured the total scattering cross section for camphor in the energy range 0.5-5 eV.
Comments
Published in J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 28 (1995) L543-L548.