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most citedAstronomical identification of CN-, the smallest observed molecular anion

244 citations · 482 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.EP2023

OH as a probe of the warm water cycle in planet-forming disks

Marion Zannese, Benoît Tabone, Emilie Habart +52

Water is a key ingredient for the emergence of life as we know it. Yet, its destruction and reformation in space remains unprobed in warm gas. Here, we detect the hydroxyl radical…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 5 cited

Universal behavior in complex-mediated reactions: Dynamics of S(1D)+ o-D2 --> D + SD at low collision energies

Manuel Lara, P. G. Jambrina, F. J. Aoiz

Reactive and elastic cross-sections, and rate coefficients, have been calculated for the S(1D)+ D2 (v=0, j=0) reaction using a modified hyperspherical quantum reactive scattering m…

physics.chem-ph2022

Cold collisions of rovibrationally excited D molecules

James F. E. Croft, Pablo G. Jambrina, F. Javier Aoiz +2

The H+H system has long been considered as a benchmark system for ro-vibrational energy transfer in bimolecular collisions. However, most studies thus far have focused on c…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 29 cited

Stereodynamical control of cold collisions between two aligned D2 molecules

Pablo G. Jambrina, James F. E. Croft, Junxiang Zuo +3

Resonant scattering of optically state-prepared and aligned molecules in the cold regime allows the most detailed interrogation and control of bimolecular collisions. This techniqu…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 31 cited

The role of low energy resonances in the stereodynamics of cold He+D2 collisions

Pablo G. Jambrina, Masato Morita, James F. E. Croft +2

In recent experiments using the Stark-induced Adiabatic Raman Passage (SARP) technique, Zhou et al. measured the product's angular distribution for the collisions between He and al…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 21 cited

Stereodynamic control of cold rotationally inelastic CO + HD collisions

Pablo G. Jambrina, James F. E. Croft, Naduvalath Balakrishnan +1

Quantum control of molecular collision dynamics is an exciting emerging area of cold collisions. Co-expansion of collision partners in a supersonic molecular beam combined with pre…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Quantum study of reaction O(3P) + H2(v,j) OH + H: OH formation in strongly UV-irradiated gas

A. Veselinova, M. Agundez, J. R. Goicoechea +5

The reaction between atomic oxygen and molecular hydrogen is an important one in astrochemistry as it regulates the abundance of the hydroxyl radical and serves to open the chemist…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 16 cited

Unveiling shape resonances in H + HF collisions at cold energies

Pablo G. Jambrina, Lola González-Sánchez, Manuel Lara +2

Resonances are associated with the trapping of an intermolecular complex, and are characterized by a series of quantum numbers such as the total angular momentum and the parity, re…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 9 cited

New Global Potential Energy Surfaces of the ground 3A' and 3A' states of the H2O system

Alexandre Zanchet, Marta Menéndez, Pablo G. Jambrina +1

This paper presents two new adiabatic, global potential energy surfaces (PESs) for the two lowest and electronic states of the O()+H system. For each of the…

quant-ph2019★ 59 cited

Stereodynamical control of a quantum scattering resonance in cold molecular collisions

Pablo G. Jambrina, James F. E. Croft, Hua Guo +3

Cold collisions of light molecules are often dominated by a single partial wave resonance. For the rotational quenching of HD(v=1,j=2) by collisions with ground state para-H2, the…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 12 cited

How reactant polarization can be used to change the effect of interference on reactive collisions

P. G. Jambrina, M. Menendez, A. Zanchet +2

It is common knowledge that integral and differential cross sections (DCSs) are strongly dependent on the spatial distribution of the molecular axis of the reactants. Hence, by con…

quant-ph2017

A quantum analogue to the defection function

P. G. Jambrina, M. Menendez, F. J. Aoiz

The classical deflection function is a valuable computational tool to investigate reaction mechanisms. It provides, at a glance, detailed information about how the reaction is affe…

physics.chem-ph2016

Product lambda-doublet ratios for the O(3P) + D2 reaction: A mechanistic imprint

P. G. Jambrina, A. Zanchet, J. Aldegunde +2

In the last decade, the development of theoretical methods have allowed chemists to reproduce and explain almost all of the experimental data associated with elementary atom plus d…

physics.chem-ph2014★ 9 cited

Beyond universality: parametrizing ultracold complex-mediated reactions using statistical assumptions

Manuel Lara, P. G. Jambrina, F. J. Aoiz +1

We have calculated accurate quantum reactive and elastic cross-sections for the prototypical barrierless reaction D + H(=0, =0) using the hyperspherical scattering…

physics.chem-ph2014

Universality in the cold and ultracold dynamics of the barrierless D+ H reaction

Manuel Lara, P. G. Jambrina, F. J. Aoiz +1

We have calculated quantum reactive and elastic cross-sections for D para-H(=0, =0) H + HD collisons using the hyperspherical quantum reactive sc…

physics.chem-ph2011★ 32 cited

On the role of dynamical barriers in barrierless-reactions at low energies: S(D) + H

Manuel Lara, P. G. Jambrina, A. J. C. Varandas +2

Reaction probabilities as a function of total angular momentum and the resulting reaction cross-sections for the collision of open shell S(D) atoms with para-hydrogen have been…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 244 cited

Astronomical identification of CN-, the smallest observed molecular anion

M. Agundez, J. Cernicharo, M. Guelin +11

We present the first astronomical detection of a diatomic negative ion, the cyanide anion CN-, as well as quantum mechanical calculations of the excitation of this anion through co…