Electron attachment to valence-excited CO
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The possibility of electron attachment to the valence 3 state of CO is examined using an ab initio bound-state multireference con guration interaction approach. The resulting resonance has 4 symmetry; the higher vibrational levels of this resonance state coincide with, or are nearly coincident with, levels of the parent a state. Collisional relaxation to the lowest vibrational levels in hot plasma situations might yield the possibility of a long-lived CO
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