Quantum Mechanical Scattering of Asymmetric Molecules. I. The Interaction Potential
- 15 July 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 57 (2) , 947-951
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1678344
Abstract
Legendre polynomial expansions are derived for the interaction potential of molecules with a distance δ between the center of interaction and the center of mass. The scattering cross sections converge to a final value for a small number of terms of the expansion. The effect of the asymmetry parameter δ is to cause a quenching and a shift of the orbiting maxima in weakly coupled systems. The differential inelastic cross sections increase rapidly from zero with growing δ.Keywords
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