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Energy Dependent Stereodynamics of the Ne(^{3}P_{2})+Ar Reaction
Sean D S Gordon1, Junwen Zou1, Silvia Tanteri1
1Institute for Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract:
The stereodynamics of the Ne(^{3}P_{2})+Ar Penning and associative ionization reactions have been studied using a crossed molecular beam apparatus. The experiment uses a curved magnetic hexapole to polarize the Ne(^{3}P_{2}), which is then oriented with a shaped magnetic field in the region where it intersects with a beam of Ar(^{1}S). The ratios of Penning to associative ionization were recorded over a range of collision energies from 320 to 500 cm^{-1} and the data were used to obtain Ω state dependent reactivities for the two reaction channels. These reactivities were found to compare favorably to those predicted in the theoretical work of Brumer et al.
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