Research Categories: Reaction dynamics

Jana Meiser, Kallie Hilsabeck The outcomes of a collision between two molecular species are solely determined by directions and energetics of the system – i.e., the translational, vibrational, and rotational energies of the reagents, and the interacting forces among them. In previous years, research in the Zare lab has focused on bimolecular collisions (i.e. H+H2), […]

William Edward Perreault and Nandini Mukherjee Measurement of vector correlations in molecular scattering is an indispensable tool for mapping out interaction potentials. We study molecular collisions such as the rotationallyinelasticscattering of deuterium hydride (HD) (v= 1, j= 2) by molecular deuterium (D2) to form HD (v= 1, j= 1),1where v and j are the vibrational […]