Nuclear dynamics in resonant electron-molecule scattering beyond the local approximation: Vibrational excitation and dissociative attachment in H/sub 2/ and D/sub 2/

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985 · Phys. Rev. A; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.32.181· OSTI ID:5362776

Muendel, C; Berman, M; Domcke, W

Vibrational excitation and dissociative electron attachment via the /sup 2/..sigma../sub u//sup +/ shape resonance in H/sub 2/ is treated within the framework of Feshbach's projection-operator formalism. The problem of nuclear motion in the complex, energy-dependent, and nonlocal potential of the /sup 2/..sigma../sub u//sup +/ resonance is solved with the use of a separable expansion of the nonlocal potential. The resonance energy, width function, and level-shift function, which characterize the resonance in the fixed-nuclei limit, are taken from recent ab initio calculations based on the many-body optical-potential approach (M. Berman, C. Muendel, and W. Domcke, Phys. Rev. A 31, 641 (1985)). Integral cross sections for vibrational excitation of H/sub 2/ and D/sub 2/ up to v = 4 and for dissociative electron attachment to H/sub 2/ and D/sub 2/ molecules in the vibrational levels v = 0, 1, and 2 have been calculated. The calculations provide a good overall description of the experimental data for both H/sub 2/ and D/sub 2/. Pronounced isotope effects and a strong dependence of the attachment cross section on the vibrational state of the target molecule are found, in qualitative agreement with experimental observations. The accuracy of two widely used approximations, the adiabatic-nuclei approximation and the local-complex-potential model, is quantitatively assessed for this prototype resonance. While the off-shell adiabatic-nuclei approximation provides a qualitatively satisfactory description of vibrational excitation, we observe a stunning failure of the local-complex-potential model.

• Research Organization: Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universitat Heidelberg, im Neuenheimer Feld 253, D-6900 Heidelberg, West Germany
• OSTI ID: 5362776
• Journal Information: Phys. Rev. A; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. A; (United States) Vol. 32:1; ISSN PLRAA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
COLLISIONS
CROSS SECTIONS
DEUTERIUM
ELECTRON ATTACHMENT
ELECTRON COLLISIONS
ELECTRON-MOLECULE COLLISIONS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY LEVELS
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EXCITATION
EXCITED STATES
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
INTEGRAL CROSS SECTIONS
ISOTOPE EFFECTS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MOLECULE COLLISIONS
MOTION
NONMETALS
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
STABLE ISOTOPES
VIBRATIONAL STATES