Is there resonance enhancement of the cross section in very low energy collision‐induced vibrational relaxation?

1984 ◽  
Vol 81 (12) ◽  
pp. 5737-5742 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Ronald Gentry
1988 ◽  
Vol 92 (13) ◽  
pp. 3751-3760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desmond J. Muller ◽  
Ruth I. McKay ◽  
Geoffrey B. Edwards ◽  
Warren D. Lawrance ◽  
Judith P. Hardy ◽  
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1988 ◽  
Vol 89 (11) ◽  
pp. 6777-6784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew B. Rock ◽  
Carol M. Van Zoeren ◽  
Scott H. Kable ◽  
Geoffrey B. Edwards ◽  
Alan E. W. Knight

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 401-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. G. Armour

A key process in the muon-catalysed fusion cycle is a low-energy collision of a tμ atom with a DA molecule, where A is H, D, or T, which leads at appropriate incident energies, to the formation of a resonant complex containing dtμ. In this paper, methods of calculating the resonant formation rate of dtμ are discussed. A description is given of a new approach that makes use of coupled equations for the rearrangement scattering process and elements of Feshbach's theory of resonances to obtain an expression for the cross section for resonant dtμ formation. The insights gained from this approach are discussed.


The 90° cross-section of the reaction 3 1 H( d , n ) 4 2 He has been investigated over the energy range 100 to 200 keV (energy of bombarding triton) using the 200 keV accelerating set of the establishment. Two methods have been used. As a preliminary experiment the yield of alpha-particles from a thick heavy-ice target was measured per unit charge of incident beam, as a function of deuteron energy, and the variation of cross-section deduced from the gradient of this excitation curve and the range energy relation for tritons in heavy water. Secondly, a comparison was made between the yield of alpha-particles from the D-T reaction and the yield of protons from the D-D reaction when a beam containing both deuterons and tritons was passed through a heavy-water vapour target. (The energy loss in this target was calculated as only a few hundred electron volts.) To do this a simultaneous observation was made of the protons and alpha-particles using the same counter. The values obtained for the cross-section have been compared with the resonance formulae given by Bretscher & French (1949) and by Tascbek, Everhart, Gittings, Hemmendinger & Jarvis (1948) and have been found to be in disagreement with formulae of this type. From considerations of the absolute magnitude of the cross-section it has been deduced that no conventional theory postulating reaction at a distance equal to the sum of the nuclear radii (cf. Konopinski & Teller 1948) will be able to explain this reaction. The evidence for a low-energy resonance (Allan & Poole 1949) is thought to be inconclusive.


2000 ◽  
Vol 113 (18) ◽  
pp. 8026-8035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takaaki Orii ◽  
Yoshiki Okada ◽  
Kazuo Takeuchi ◽  
Masahiko Ichihashi ◽  
Tamotsu Kondow

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 137-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart A. Rice ◽  
Charles Cerjan

Recent experimental and theoretical studies of very low energy collision induced vibrational relaxation in diatomic and polyatomic molecules are surveyed. Emphasis is placed on the novel features of the very low energy process; these require a full quantum mechanical treatment of the collision to account for the observations.


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