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Simplistic Analysis of Reactive Scattering
Author(s) -
Levine R. D.,
Bernstein R. B.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
israel journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.908
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1869-5868
pISSN - 0021-2148
DOI - 10.1002/ijch.196900042
Subject(s) - chemistry , opacity , inversion (geology) , scattering , statistical physics , computational physics , optics , physics , paleontology , structural basin , biology
The relation between the angular distribution of the non‐reactively scattered molecules in a reactive collision and the reaction probability is analyzed in terms of a classical grey sphere “optical model”. Computational results for a model problem are discurred, and the inversion procedure, for the deduction of an opacity function (reaction probability vs. impact parameter) from an observed and a reference angular distribution, is tested. It is concluded that a simple phenomenological analysis of experimental angular distributions can be based on such an optical model.