Ion-Molecular Spiraling Collisions and Termolecular Recombination.

Abstract

A modification is made to the semiclassical adiabatic invariance method for ion-dipole and ion-quadrupole capture collisions. This modification to the adiabatic invariance method includes the effects of coupling of the rotational angular momentum of the target molecule with the orbital angular momentum of the projectile ion. The adiabatic potential energies, cross sections and rate coefficients for capture into rotational eigenstates /J, m > of the target molecule, as well as the thermal averaged rate coefficients are calculated for a number ion-dipole and ion-quadrupole systems for the temperature range 10 < or - T (deg K) < or - 1000.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA285633

Entities

People

  • Xin Qi

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Momentum
  • Coefficients
  • Collisions
  • Couplings
  • Energy
  • Invariance
  • Molecules
  • Momentum
  • Orbital Angular Momentum
  • Physical Properties
  • Potential Energy
  • Projectiles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster