Electron-impact resonant vibrational excitation and dissociation processes involving vibrationally excited N2molecules

Electron-impact resonant vibrational excitation and dissociation processes involving vibrationally excited N2 molecules

Resonant vibrational excitation cross sections and the corresponding rate coefficients for electron–N2 collisions occurring through the N − 2 (X 2 g) resonant state are reviewed. New calculations are performed using accurate potential energy curves for the N2 electronic ground state, taken from the literature, and for the N2 resonant state, obtained from R-matrix calculations. The calculations ...

Dissociative electron attachment to vibrationally excited H2 molecules involving the resonant Rydberg electronic state

Article history: Available online 14 May 2011

Electron-impact vibrational excitation of cyclopropane.

We report a very detailed test of the ab initio discrete momentum representation (DMR) method of calculating vibrational excitation of polyatomic molecules by electron impact, by comparison of its results with an extensive set of experimental data, covering the entire range of scattering angles from 10° to 180° and electron energies from 0.4 to 20 eV. The DMR calculations were carried out by so...

Vibrational excitation of water by electron impact

Experimental and calculated differential cross sections DCSs for electron-impact excitation of the 010 bending mode and unresolved 100 symmetric and 001 antisymmetric stretching modes of water are presented. Measurements are reported at incident energies of 1–100 eV and scattering angles of 10° –130° and are normalized to the elastic-scattering DCSs for water determined earlier by our group. Th...

Electron Impact Vibrational Excitation Cross Sections of SiF4