Inter-relations between classical cross sections for rotational transitions in sudden atom-molecule collisions
- 14 September 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 12 (17) , L521-L524
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/12/17/002
Abstract
It is shown that, in the sudden approximation, a knowledge of classical cross sections for transitions of a rigid rotor initially at rest is sufficient to determine transitions between any other levels.Keywords
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