ROTATIONAL-VIBRATIONAL RAINBOWS IN IMPULSIVE ELECTRON-DIATOMIC MOLECULE COLLISIONS .2. TOTAL VIBRATIONAL AND ROTATIONAL TRANSITIONS

Authors
ERNESTI A KORSCH HJ
Citation
A. Ernesti et Hj. Korsch, ROTATIONAL-VIBRATIONAL RAINBOWS IN IMPULSIVE ELECTRON-DIATOMIC MOLECULE COLLISIONS .2. TOTAL VIBRATIONAL AND ROTATIONAL TRANSITIONS, Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters, 32(1-2), 1994, pp. 101-111
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01787683
Volume
32
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
101 - 111
Database
ISI
SICI code
0178-7683(1994)32:1-2<101:RRIIEM>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Rotational and vibrational rainbow effects in electron-diatomic molecu le scattering at intermediate impact energies (almost-equal-to 10(2) e V) are discussed in a simple quantum mechanical spectator model within the rigid rotor/harmonic oscillator approximation. The total vibratio nal (summed over all final rotational quantum numbers) and rotational (vibrationally summed) transition probabilities show vibrational or ro tational rainbow patterns, characteristic steps, and rainbow singulari ties, which are analyzed and interpreted in terms of classical cross s ections.