Theoretical progress and challenges in H3+ dissociative recombination

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1848, 2006, Pages 2965-2980

  Greene, Chris H ^a   Kokoouline, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociative recombination; Jahn Teller effect; Quantum defect theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751409299     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1869     Document Type: Article

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