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Elastic Scattering Cross Sections II: Noncentral Potentials

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Atom - Molecule Collision Theory

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The title of this chapter seems to be self-contradictory, since noncentral potentials are usually and rightly considered as the source of inelastic effects. However, the angular-dependent part of the intermolecular potential (AIP) causes, too, an orientational dependence of all collision processes including the elastic scattering. It is this aspect which has been exploited in recent years to obtain valuable information on the AIP. Prerequisite for experiments in this direction is state selection, by which certain preferential orientations of the interacting molecules are produced.

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Stolte, S., Reuss, J. (1979). Elastic Scattering Cross Sections II: Noncentral Potentials. In: Bernstein, R.B. (eds) Atom - Molecule Collision Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2913-8_5

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