State-Resolved Reaction Dynamics.

Abstract

During the past three years major progress has been made in three areas: (1) the study of the simplest of all neutral bimolecular reactions H + D2 yields HD + D using one laser to generate fast H atoms in the photolysis of HI in an HI + D2 mixture and a second laser to detect the HD product in a quantum state specific manner by resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of Hd via the E,F I sigma g + state; (2) The determination of the distribution of impact parameters responsible for the formation of BaI(v=8) product in the beam-gas reaction Ba + HI. This required a full rotational analysis of the BaI sq X sigma + and sq C pi states; (3) The commencement of studies on ion-molecule reactions in which the reagent ion's vibrational and translation energy is controlled and varied in a systematic manner.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 10, 1985
Accession Number
ADA168592

Entities

People

  • Richard Zare

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Classification
  • Decomposition
  • Dissociation
  • Dynamics
  • Excitation
  • Hydrogen
  • Ionization
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Molecules
  • Photolysis
  • Physics
  • Resonance
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Quantum Computing