Ab initio Potential-Energy Surfaces and Electron-Spin-Exchange Cross Sections for H-O2 Interactions

Author:: Stallcop, James R.
Published:: Feb. 1996.
Physical Description:: 1 electronic document
Additional Creators:: Levin, Eugene and Partridge, Harry

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Accurate quartet- and doublet-state potential-energy surfaces for the interaction of a hydrogen atom and an oxygen molecule in their ground states have been determined from an ab initio calculation using large-basis sets and the internally contracted multireference configuration interaction method. These potential surfaces have been used to calculate the H-O2 electron-spin-exchange cross section; the square root of the cross section (in a(sub 0)), not taking into account inelastic effects, can be obtained approximately from the expressions 2.390E(sup -1/6) and 5.266-0.708 log10(E) at low and high collision energies E (in E(sub h)), respectively. These functional forms, as well as the oscillatory structure of the cross section found at high energies, are expected from the nature of the interaction energy. The mean cross section (the cross section averaged over a Maxwellian velocity distribution) agrees reasonably well with the results of measurements.

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Atomic and Molecular Physics

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Document ID: 19980017787.
NASA/CR-95-207208.
NAS 1.26:207208.
Physical Review A(ISSN 1050-2947); Volume 53; No. 2; 766-771.

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