Isotope shift in the bulge effect of molecular scattering
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 19 (6) , 2173-2179
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.19.2173
Abstract
The recently observed "bulge" effect in rotationally inelastic scattering is substantiated by the detection of its isotope shift in K-CO collisions. This effect is a classical rainbow-type phenomenon which has been seen in the energy transfer or recoil-velocity dependence of K-CO and K- scattering at large angles and collision energies of about 1 eV. It is caused by the nonspherical bulge of the repulsive equipotentials of the intermolecular force and may be useful as a probe to its anisotropy.
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