The ionic potential for the system K + Br2 K+ + Br2- is given by
a Rittner potential of the form
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Figure A05-m4bii-F1: K + BR2 ionic and covalent potential. |
For a system with the potential given above, the deflection function turns out to be closed. Figure A05-m4bii-F1 represents the deflection curves for chemi-ionization scattering of K + Br2 (CM system).
The full curves represent the classically calculated scattering angle for ``ionic'' and ``covalent'' scattering at colliding energies of 10.35 and 6.9 eV, determined using a simple classical model and measurements of the differential cross section in a molecular beam experiment. The dashed curves show the ``pure inelastic'' scattering-angle contribution to the full-line curves.
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Figure A05-m4bii-F2:
K + BR2, deflection curves for chemi-ionization scattering (CM system. ![]() |
The differential cross section calculated based on the deflection function given above has the following shape: Figure A05-m4bii-F3 represents the classically calculated determined chemi-ionization differential cross section of K + Br2 (CM system) at colliding energies of 6.9 and 10.35 eV and convoluted with the energy spread of the velocity selector.
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Figure A05-m4bii-F3:
K + BR2, classically calculated chemi-ionization differential cross section (CM system) at colliding energies of 6.9 eV and 10.35 eV. ![]() |
For both energies equal units have been used on the ordinate. The dotted lines indicate the
dependence of the slope steepness for ``covalent'' scattering. At
Ei= 10.35 eV and different values of the polarizability
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and the ionic-well minimum
the positions of the scattering angle for
b=Rcscattering respectively the classical rainbow angle have been indicated along the abscissa. The values used in the calculations have been underlined.