The intensity of light scattered by liquid CS2

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Abstract
We apply our recent theory of light scattering from fluids of optically anisotropic molecules to the case of liquid carbon disulfide. We focus our attention on δ2, the experimentally measured ratio of depolarized to polarized light scattering intensities. With the pair distribution function obtained from the RISM equation, we calculate δ2 using two models for the optical response of the fluid. In the first one (PPA) a point anisotropic polarizability is assigned to each molecule: in the second one (PAPA), each atom is given a point isotropic polarizability. We find that the more realistic PAPA model results in reasonable agreement with measurements of Burnham, Alms, and Flygare.