Dissociative Recombination of the Thioformyl (HCS⁺) and Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS⁺) Cations

Branching ratios and absolute cross sections have been measured for the dissociative recombination of HCS+ and OCS+ at the CRYRING ion storage ring. In the case of OCS+, the channel leading to CO + S ( 83%) dominates, whereas the other exoergic pathways leading to CS + O (14%) and C + SO (3%) are of lesser importance. In the case of HCS+, fracture of the C - S bond is predominant (81%), with the production of H + CS accounting for the remainder (19%). The cross section of the reaction could be fitted by the expressions sigma = 1.41 x 10(-15)E(eV)(-1.11) and 4.47 x 10(-16)E(eV) (-1.14) cm(2) for HCS+ and OCS+, respectively. The derived energy dependences of the thermal reaction rate coefficients can be fitted by k(T) 9.7 x 10(-7)(T/300)(-0.57) and 3.5 x 10(-7)(T/300)(-0.62) cm(3) s(-1) for HCS+ and OCS+, respectively. We use these data to perform model calculations on the HCS+/CS abundance ratio in dark clouds and find that the models using the UMIST and Ohio State University databases have even more difficulty in accounting for the large observed ratio.