In this paper we report the results of a study on the dissociative recombination (DR) of the diacetylene cation, C
4D
2+, which has been carried out at the ion storage ring CRYRING in Stockholm, Sweden. The energy-dependent absolute DR cross-section as well as the branching fractions at
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0 eV collision energy were measured. The DR cross-section was best fitted using the expression
σ(
E) = (7.5 ± 1.5) × 10
−16 ×
E−(1.29±0.03) cm
2 over the collision energy range 1–100 meV. The thermal rate coefficient was deduced from the cross-section to be
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(
T) = (1.10 ± 0.15) × 10
−6 × (
T/300)
−(0.79±0.03) cm
3/s. The reported branching fractions for C
4D
2+ agree with previous experiments on the DR of C
4H
2+ performed at the ASTRID storage ring in Aarhus, Denmark, and furthermore, indicate that the DR of C
4D
2+ possesses only two channels leading to the following products: C
4D + D (75 % ) and C
2D + C
2D (25 % ).