Observation of enhanced rate coefficients in the H$_2^+$ + H$_2$ $\rightarrow$ H$_3^+$ + H reaction at low collision energies

Pitt Allmendinger; Johannes Deiglmayr; Katharina Höveler; Otto Schullian; Frédéric Merkt

doi:10.1063/1.4972130

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Observation of enhanced rate coefficients in the H $_{2}^{+}$ + H $_{2}$ $\to$ H $_{3}^{+}$ + H reaction at low collision energies

arXiv:1612.07232 · doi:10.1063/1.4972130

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The energy dependence of the rate coefficient of the H $_{2}^{+} + H_{2} \to H_{3}^{+} + H$ reaction has been measured in the range of collision energies between $k_{B} \cdot 10$ K and $k_{B} \cdot 300$ mK. A clear deviation of the rate coefficient from the value expected on the basis of the classical Langevin-capture behavior has been observed at collision energies below $k_{B} \cdot 1$ K, which is attributed to the joint effects of the ion-quadrupole and Coriolis interactions in collisions involving ortho-H $_{2}$ molecules in the $j = 1$ rotational level, which make up 75% of the population of the neutral H $_{2}$ molecules in the experiments. The experimental results are compared to very recent predictions by Dashevskaya, Litvin, Nikitin and Troe (J. Chem. Phys., in press), with which they are in agreement.

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Observation of enhanced rate coefficients in the H $_{2}^{+}$ + H $_{2}$ $\to$ H $_{3}^{+}$ + H reaction at low collision energies

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