The authors attempt to give a comprehensive discussion of observations of atomic negative-ion
resonances throughout the periodic table. A review of experimental and theoretical …

… as autodetaching resonances. However, … a negative ion relative to the lowest lying hyperfine
state of the corresponding neutral atom is termed the electron affinity (EA) of the neutral atom…

… negative-ion resonances in elastic and inelastic total scattering cross sections for slow electron
collisions with the heavy-alkali-metal atoms Rb, Cs… a 3Po shape resonance and 3Pe, 1P1 …

… of a Rydberg atom that binds to a neutral ground-state atom … of negative-ion resonances
at the example of the quasibound … , which are dominated by resonant electron-atom p-wave …

… negative ion resonances, ranging from electron scattering, to laser photodetachment, to
ion–atom … and, as the lifetimes of these transient negative ion states are so short there is, to our …

… the electron affinity y2 of the atom forming the core of the negative ion can be determined by
… scattering of electrons by the atom forming the core of the negative ion, whether it is stable …

… The neutral Ps atoms formed by (resonant) photodetachment are detected by the MCP. (b)
Optical transition from Ps − ( 1 S e ) to Ps (n=1 or 2) +e − continuum state via shape …

… Such short-lived negative ion stateslying above the ground … forming an isolated negative ion
resonance by capture of a slow … ated with the Cl-atom-dominated molecular characteristics, …

… associate resonances with one or two molecular orbitals of a negative ion state of the atom
… always be considered in order to describe a resonance properly. %hen only a single termis …

… 3 10215 cm2 is 2 or 3 orders of magnitude larger than expected for a detachment cross
section in an atomic negative ion (barring strong continuum resonance enhancements) [2,13,14]. …