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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2020

Probing Low-Energy Resonances in Water-Hydrogen Inelastic Collisions

A. Bergeat
Sébastien B. Morales
  • Fonction : Auteur
Christian Naulin
  • Fonction : Auteur
Laurent Wiesenfeld

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Molecular scattering at collisional energies of the order of 10-100 cm −1 (corresponding to kinetic temperatures in the 15-150 K range) provides insight into the details of the scattering process and, in particular, of the various resonances that appear in inelastic cross sections. In this Letter, we present a detailed experimental and theoretical study of the rotationally inelastic scattering of ground-state ortho-D 2 O by ground-state para-H 2 in the threshold region of the D 2 Oð0 00 → 2 02 Þ transition at 35.9 cm −1. The measurements were performed with a molecular crossed beam apparatus with variable collision angle, thence with variable collisional energy. Calculations were carried out with the coupled-channel method combined with a dedicated high-level D 2 O-H 2 intermolecular potential. Our theoretical cross section 0 00 → 2 02 is found to display several resonance peaks in perfect agreement with the experimental work, in their absolute positions and relative intensities. We show that those peaks are mostly due to shape resonances, characterized here for the first time for a polyatomic molecule colliding with a diatom.
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hal-03058396 , version 1 (11-12-2020)

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A. Bergeat, Sébastien B. Morales, Christian Naulin, Laurent Wiesenfeld, A Faure. Probing Low-Energy Resonances in Water-Hydrogen Inelastic Collisions. Physical Review Letters, 2020, 125, ⟨10.1103/physrevlett.125.143402⟩. ⟨hal-03058396⟩
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