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Rotational Transitions in the N2 + Ion Induced by Collisions with Helium Atoms in Cold Helium Plasmas. A
Stanislav Paláček1, René Kalus2, Florent Xavier Gadéa3
1IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center and Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00, Ostrava - Poruba, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Cross-sections of state-to-state rotational transitions in electronically ground-state 14 (X2 ) ions induced by collisions with 4 He atoms have been calculated using a quasiclassical trajectory method and a set of artificial neural networks representing the /He potential energy surface. The training points for the neural networks have been calculated at a MCSCF (multi-configuration self-consistent field)/aug-cc-pVQZ level. A broad range of the /He collision energy has been considered ( eV) and the efficiency of vibrational transitions in the ion has also been analyzed. It has been found that vibrational transitions are negligible with respect to rotational transitions up to eV and that above this energy, both rotational and vibrational transitions in are marginal in the /He collisions.
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