THE PHOTODISSOCIATION OF O-3 - A CLASSICAL DYNAMIC APPROACH FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE RECURRENCES IN THE AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION

Families of periodic orbits and the classical survival probability function are calculated for ozone in the excited 1B2 state. It is shown that some of the observed oscillations in the experimentally extracted and quantum mechanically calculated time autocorrelation functions can be explained by certain types of periodic orbits. Disagreements between the calculated and experimental correlation function are attributed to inaccuracies of the potential function used.