Karl.ahrendsen

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Happy editing! Certes (talk) 10:39, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Dissociative electron attachment

I've removed the new entry from DEA (disambiguation) for now, because each entry should have a blue link to an article or section about the topic. Several pages mention DEA but don't explain it. Is DEA closely related to Electron-capture dissociation? If so then we could add a redirect to there, reinstate the dab entry, and add useful wikilinks to the articles which mention it. (I'm no physicist; I mainly fix wiklinks and disambiguation pages.) Certes (talk) 10:45, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Certes, and thanks for the welcome and the helpful intro to places that I can look to for help. I think I'm primarily interested in improving physics related articles, since that's what I study. I recently wrote a paper as part of the requirements for my PhD degree that was about DEA, so that's what motivated me to start making these edits.

After looking over Electron-capture dissociation, I would say that DEA represents a "sister" process to ECD, the distinction being that DEA involves a neutral molecule in the initial state, while ECD has a positively charge ion in the initial state.

Clearly I'm going to be a bit biased because I spent approximately the last three weeks of my life researching the topic, but I think DEA satisfies the "notability" requirements. I don't think DEA is specifically in the title of any academic review papers, but it is featured prominently in a number of academic reviews. Since the page doesn't exist, I was hoping I could create it based on the research I did.Karl.ahrendsen (talk) 14:15, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

That sounds like a good idea. Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics should be able to confirm that it's a notable topic and help with the article. I expect you'll have unearthed plenty of material from reliable sources, but beware of WP:SELFCITE. Certes (talk) 14:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)