Molecular Reorientation in Collisions between an Atom and a Diatomic Molecule
- 15 December 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 49 (12), 5269-5275
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1670044
Abstract
Collisions between atoms and diatomic molecules that result in reorientation of the molecular rotation relative to a laboratory‐fixed frame are treated theoretically. An expression for the cross section in terms of elements of the scattering matrix is derived, and approximate numerical methods for calculation in a specific example, the low‐energy scattering of H2 by He, are discussed.Keywords
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