Multiple impacts and energy transfer in a three-body system for noncollinear collisions

Autor: Azriel, Vladimir M., Rusin, Lev Yu., Sevryuk, Mikhail B.
Zdroj: Theoretica Chimica Acta; December 1993, Vol. 87 Issue: 3 p195-213, 19p
Abstrakt: Summary Within the impulsive framework, the energy transfer processes in collisions of atoms with diatomic molecules are considered. In the case of noncollinear collisions involving multiple impacts between the particles, analytic expressions for the amount of the collision energy transferred to the internal degrees of freedom of the molecule have been derived. The limiting cases of these expressions are the well-known Mahan (a single impact) and Mahan-Shin (collinear collisions) formulas. The efficiency of energy transfer in collisions of cesium halide molecules with xenon atoms has been computed as an example; the results obtained agree well with the data of accurate trajectory calculations.
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