DIFFERENTIAL CROSS-SECTIONS FOR ELASTIC AND REACTIVE COLLISIONS BETWEEN NA AND MULTIPLE-PHOTON EXCITED SF6

Authors
DUREN R KNEPPER M MOHR S HEKKERT ST LINSKENS AF REUSS J
Citation
R. Duren et al., DIFFERENTIAL CROSS-SECTIONS FOR ELASTIC AND REACTIVE COLLISIONS BETWEEN NA AND MULTIPLE-PHOTON EXCITED SF6, Chemical physics letters, 228(1-3), 1994, pp. 41-46
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Chemical physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00092614
Volume
228
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
41 - 46
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2614(1994)228:1-3<41:DCFEAR>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Differential cross sections for collisions of Na and SF6 from beam exp eriments are presented. The SF6 is vibrationally excited to the 5 nu(3 ) level with a CO2 laser. Enhancement of reactive scattering is detect ed for different energies (0.25 eV, 1.04 eV and 2.70 eV) and at labora tory angles between 10 and 75 deg. The amount of elastically scattered Na from excited SF6 always decreases in comparison with ground state scattering. The experiments show that the reaction is more efficient i f vibrational energy is put into SF6 as compared with exciting Na elec tronically.