Basic expression for the rates of termolecular recombination and dissociation
- 28 December 1985
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 18 (24) , L839-L844
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/18/24/003
Abstract
It is noted that the usual identification of the rate RA(t) for termolecular recombination at time t with the downward current past a bound energy level is appropriate to cases which involve energy distributions that satisfy the quasi-steady-state (QSS) condition to the exact master equation. A general expression for RA(t) is derived which is valid for both QSS and non-QSS distributions, such as those non-QSS distributions obtained from both the diffusional and variational methods or from numerical approximation to the exact QSS condition.Keywords
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