ISSN:
1089-7690
Quelle:
AIP Digital Archive
Thema:
Physik
,
Chemie und Pharmazie
Notizen:
By means of full quantum close-coupling and coupled states calculations based on an ab initio potential energy surface for the Ar–CH system, we confirm a propensity seen experimentally by Hancock, Stuhl, and their co-workers. During the rotational relaxation of high rotational levels of the CH(X 2Π) radical, produced by photolysis of a suitable precursor, there appears a clear population imbalance in favor of the Λ-doublet levels of Π(A‘) symmetry. A full kinetic simulation, based on the calculated cross sections, reproduces nearly quantitatively the experimental observations of both the temporal evolution and the pressure dependence of this Λ-doublet asymmetry. This asymmetry is a consequence of both an enhanced depletion of high N Π(A') levels and the enhanced formation of Π(A‘) levels in the next lower (N−1) manifolds. The physical origin of this propensity involves a crossing between two adiabatic bender potentials which follow, respectively, the A' and A‘ potential energy surface (PES). This crossing occurs only for the "helicopter-like'' approach of the CH molecule, in which its rotational angular momentum is aligned along the initial relative velocity vector. Thus, a strong v, N correlation in the reactant channel results in a strong Λ, N correlation in the product channel.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.468269
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