INELASTIC ELECTRON DIPOLE-MOLECULE SCATTERING AT SUB-MILLI-ELECTRON-VOLT ENERGIES - CH3I AND CH2BR2

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作者
LING, X [1 ]
SMITH, KA [1 ]
DUNNING, FB [1 ]
机构
[1] RICE UNIV, RICE QUANTUM INST, HOUSTON, TX 77251 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1993年 / 47卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.47.R1
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Studies of Rydberg-atom destruction in collisions with the polar targets CH3I and CH2Br2 for values of principal quantum number n in the range 100-400 are reported. Analysis of the data using the essentially-free-electron model suggests that, for ultralow electron energies (approximately 80 mueV to 1 meV), the cross section sigma(epsilon) for rotationally inelastic scattering of electrons by a polar target varies approximately as 1/epsilon, where epsilon is the electron energy. The Born approximation does not predict such behavior at very low collision energies, and possible reasons for this discrepancy are discussed.
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