Effect of incidence energy and angle on the adsorption probability of Xe on Pt(111): Energy–angle scaling relations

Abstract
The sticking probability of Xe on Pt(111) at a surface temperature of 85 K is found to fall rapidly with increasing kinetic energy over the range 63 to 800 meV. Increasing the incidence angle from 30° to 60° generally raises this probability, in a manner consistent with an approximate scaling with Ei cos1.6θi.