Quantum Mechanical Analysis of the Elastic Scattering of Reactive Systems

Abstract

A numerical method of calculating optical phase shifts for spherically symmetric complex potential is described. Computations of optical phase shifts are carried out for the purposes of analyzing phenomenologically the elasticscatterings of chemically reactive systems and examining the behavior of the so‐called opacity function. It is shown that the calculated phase shifts may be concisely represented in terms of a set of reduced variables. The existence of the reduced variables is very useful and conveniently exploited in the analysis of the elasticscattering of K + HBr system at E = 1.49 kcal / mole . The calculated phase shifts for various potential models are presented in tables and figures.