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Vibrational and rotational energy disposal in the H + D/sub 2/ reaction at 1. 3 Ev: surprisal analysis of experiments and computations

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5571691

Recent independent experimental determinations, by Zare and Valentini and their co-workers, of the HD product-state distribution are consistent with a common set of surprisal parameters: lambda/sub nu/ approx. = 2 and theta/sub r/ in the range 3-5. Analysis of the computational results of Blais and Truhlar suggest that a somewhat larger fraction of the available energy is channeled into rotation and that the orientation of the emergent HD molecule is constrained.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA). Dept. of Chemistry
OSTI ID:
5571691
Report Number(s):
AD-A-167156/9/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English