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Title: Reaction Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Hydrocarbons in Plasma

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1124189· OSTI ID:1124189

This grant supported research in theoretical and computational Chemical Physics that resulted in numerous publications on fitting ab initio potential energy surfaces and dipole moment surfaces of polyatomic molecules and cations. This work made use of novel fitting methods that ensures that these surfaces are invariant with respect to all permutations of like atoms. The surfaces were used in various dynamics calculations, ranging from quantum vibrational dynamics to(quasi)classical trajectory calculations of reaction dynamics. A number of these studies were done in collaboration with experimental groups where the theoretical analyses turned out to be essential to give a proper understanding of the experimental results.

Research Organization:
Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-07ER54914
OSTI ID:
1124189
Report Number(s):
DOE-EMORY-54914; 5-22145
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English