Indirect dissociative recombination of LiH$_2^+$ + e$^-$
Abstract
We present the results of calculations determining the cross sections for indirect dissociative recombination of LiH + . These calculations employ multichannel quantum defect theory and Fano's rovibrational frame transformation technique to obtain the indirect DR cross section in the manner described by Ref.\cite{hamilton}. We use \textit{ab initio} electron-molecule scattering codes to calculate quantum defects. In contrast to H, the LiH molecule exhibits considerable mixing between rotation and vibration; however, by incorporating an exact treatment of the rovibrational dynamics of the LiH, we show that this mixing has only a small effect on the observed DR rate. We calculate a large DR rate for this cation, 4.0 10 cm s at 1 meV incident electron energy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.5046,
title = {Indirect dissociative recombination of LiH$_2^+$ + e$^-$},
author = {Daniel J. Haxton and Chris H. Greene},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.5046},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Submitted to phys rev A