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Dissociative as well as nondissociative single ionization of H2 by 6 MeV proton impact has been studied in a kinematically complete experiment by measuring the momentum vectors of the electron and the H+ fragment or the H+2 target ion, respectively. For the two ionization pathways, the electron spectra reveal the role of autoionization of the doubly and singly excited states of H2. The latter explicitly involve the coupling between the electronic and the nuclear motion of the molecule. This is a clear manifestation of a breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.
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Dimopoulou et al. (2004) studied this question.
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