Electron-impact rotational excitation of H3+: Relevance for thermalization and dissociation dynamics

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

Volumn 364, Issue 1848, 2006, Pages 3113-3120

  Faure, Alexandre ^a   Wiesenfeld, Laurent ^a   Valiron, Pierre ^a   Tennyson, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissociative recombination; Electron molecule collisions; H3+; Molecular ions; Rotational excitation; Thermalization processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751434296     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1863     Document Type: Article

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