Inelastic Scattering of CO with He: Polarization Dependent Differential State-to-State Cross Sections
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- 作者：Lei Song ; Gerrit C. Groenenboom ; Ad van der Avoird ; Chandan Kumar Bishwakarma ; Gautam Sarma ; David H. Parker ; Arthur G. Suits
- 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 17, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：119
- 期：50
- 页码：12526-12537
- 全文大小：695K
- ISSN：1520-5215
文摘
A joint theoretical and experimental study of state-to-state rotationally inelastic polarization dependent differential cross sections (PDDCSs) for CO (v = 0, j = 0, 1, 2) molecules colliding with helium is reported for collision energies of 513 and 840 cm鈥?. In a crossed molecular beam experiment, velocity map imaging (VMI) with state-selective detection by (2 + 1) and (1 + 1鈥? resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) is used to probe rotational excitation of CO due to scattering. By taking account of the known fractions of the j = 0, 1, and 2 states of CO in the rotationally cold molecular beam (Trot 鈮?3 K), close-coupling theory based on high-quality ab initio potential energy surfaces for the CO鈥揌e interaction is used to simulate the differential cross sections for the mixed initial states. With polarization-sensitive 1 + 1鈥?REMPI detection and a direct analysis procedure described by Suits et al. ( J. Phys, Chem. Awww.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ACS="http://namespace.acs.org/2008/acs" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:space="preserve"> 2015www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ACS="http://namespace.acs.org/2008/acs" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:space="preserve">, 119www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ACS="http://namespace.acs.org/2008/acs" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:space="preserve">, 5925), alignment moments are extracted from the images and the latter are compared with images simulated by theory using the calculated DCS and alignment moments. In general, good agreement of theory with the experimental results is found, indicating the reliability of the experiment in reproducing state-to-state differential and polarization-dependent differential cross sections.