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High Resolution Phonon-assisted Quasi-resonance Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Published on: June 28, 2016
Appearance of low energy resonances in CO-para-H2 inelastic collisions
Simon Chefdeville1, Thierry Stoecklin, Astrid Bergeat
1Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, F-33400 Talence, France.
Abstract:
We report on crossed-beam experiments and quantum-mechanical calculations performed on the CO(j=0) + H2(j=0) → CO(j=1) + H2(j=0) system. The experimental cross sections determined in the threshold region of the CO(j=0 → j=1) transition at 3.85 cm(-1) show resonance structures in good qualitative agreement with the theoretical ones. These results suggest that the potential energy surface which describes the CO-H2 van der Waals interaction should be reinvestigated for good quantitative agreement.
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