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Title: Reactive differential cross sections in the rotating linear model: reactions of fluorine atoms with hydrogen molecules and their isotopic variants

Journal Article · · J. Phys. Chem.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/j150659a036· OSTI ID:5961823

Angular distributions are predicted for the reactions f + H/sub 2/(v=0) ..-->.. H + HF(v'=2), F + HD(v=0) ..-->.. D + HF(v'=2), and F + D/sub 2/(v=0) ..-->.. D + DF(v'=3) by solving the quantum-dynamical equations for the rotating linear model with corrections for bending zero-point energy (the BCRLM approximation). For each of these reactions, time delays, deflection functions, opacity functions, and resonance parameters are reported. The resonance contributions to the angular distributions are predicted to be relatively small for each of the title reactions. The resonance lifetimes in all cases are found to be greater than 4 times the vibrational period of the reactant diatomic molecule. However, the angular velocities, lifetimes, and amplitudes of the resonance states are not collectively large enough to produce discernible effects in the angular distributions. Shifts in the peaks of the angular distributions from backward to sideways scattering as the collision energy is increased appear to be due primarily to direct (i.e., nonresonance) scattering. 14 references, 20 figures, 5 tables.

Research Organization:
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
OSTI ID:
5961823
Journal Information:
J. Phys. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 88:12
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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