The model for collision density most frequently used in kinetic treatments of recoil data is based on elastic isotropic scattering and treats inelastic collisions corresponding to reaction in a simple and tractable manner but neglects other inelastic contributions. The effect of several inelastic processes on the collision density function for the system of recoil tritium in the presence of hydrogen was studied. Two categories of inelastic processes are: those collisions leading to reaction giving molecular products and those collisions involved primarily in merely degrading the energy of the hot atom. The study showed that reaction is by far the most important perturbing influence on the distribution function although other specific inelastic processes might be important in various energy regions for calculations requiring a precise collision density. (LK)
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DOE contract number: AT(11-1)-2190 NSA number: NSA-29-015403 OSTI Identifier 4344085 Research organization: Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA). Dept. of Chemistry.