Isotope Effects in Complex Scattering Lengths for He Collisions With Molecular Hydrogen
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Nolte, Jeff
Yang, B.H.
Stancil, Phillip
Lee, Teck-Ghee
Balakrishnan, Naduvalath
Forrey, Robert C.
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Nolte, Jeff L., B.H. Yang, Phillip C. Stancil, Teck-Ghee Lee, Naduvalath Balakrishnan, Robert C. Forrey, and Alexander Dalgarno. 2010. Isotope effects in complex scattering lengths for He collisions with molecular hydrogen. Physical Review A 81(1): 014701.Abstract
We examine the effect of theoretically varying the collision-system reduced mass in collisions of He with vibrationally excited molecular hydrogen and observe zero-energy resonances for select atomic “hydrogen” masses less than 1 u or a “helium” mass of 1.95 u. Complex scattering lengths, state-to-state vibrational quenching cross sections, and a low-energy elastic scattering resonance are all studied as a function of collision-system reduced mass. Experimental observations of these phenomena in the cold and ultracold regimes for collisions of \(^{3}\)He and \(^{4}\)He with H\(_{2}\), HD, HT, and DT should be feasible in the near future.Terms of Use
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