Studies of accumulation rate of H atoms in solid H2 films exposed to 0.1 and 5.7 keV electrons
: Sheludiakov S, Wetzel CK, Lee DM, Khmelenko VV, Järvinen J, Ahokas J, Vasiliev S
Publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
: 2023
: Physical Review B
: PHYSICAL REVIEW B
: PHYS REV B
: 134110
: 107
: 13
: 6
: 2469-9950
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.134110(external)
: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.134110(external)
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/179737522(external)
In this work, we report on electron spin resonance studies of H atoms stabilized in solid H2 films at temperature 0.1 and 0.7 K and in a magnetic field of 4.6 T. We produced H atoms by two different techniques: bombarding H2 films by 0.1 keV electrons generated during an rf discharge run in the sample cell or exposing H2 films to a flux of 5.7 keV electrons released during tritium decay. We observed a faster H atom accumulation in the films made of H2 gas with a small initial ortho-H2 content (0.2-3%) as compared with those made from the gas with a higher initial ortho-H2 admixture. The accumulation rate difference was about 70% for the samples exposed to high energy electrons and about an order of magnitude for the samples bombarded by low-energy electrons. We propose possible explanations for the observed behavior.