Near-threshold inelastic collisions using molecular beams with a tunable velocity

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5793, 2006, Pages 1617-1620

  Gilijamse, Joop J ^a   Hoekstra, Steven ^a   Van De Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y T ^a   Groenenboom, Gerrit C ^b   Meijer, Gerard ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR BEAMS; NEGATIVE IONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; XENON;

COLLISION ENERGY; MOLECULAR SCATTERING; STARK DECELERATOR; WAVENUMBERS;

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

HYDROXYL RADICAL; XENON;

COLLISION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIGHT SCATTERING; XENON;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY;

EID: 33748789342     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131867     Document Type: Article

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