K. Sakimoto, QUANTUM-MECHANICAL CALCULATIONS OF COLLISION-INDUCED DISSOCIATION FORATOM-DIATOM REACTIVE SYSTEMS - ON THE SCATTERING BOUNDARY-CONDITION, Chemical physics letters, 228(4-5), 1994, pp. 323-328
An approximate method of Sakimoto and Onda for deriving the S-matrix e
lements for dissociative collisions in collinear atom-diatom reactive
systems, which provided accurate total dissociation probabilities, has
been tested further. To do this, kinetic energy distributions of atom
ic products have been calculated and compared with results given by Ka
ye and Kuppermann. The method of Sakimoto and Onda always gives an art
ificial dip structure in the kinetic energy distributions. Further stu
dies are required to resolve the double continuum problem in dissociat
ive collisions.