Quantum Mechanical Scattering of Asymmetric Molecules. I. The Interaction Potential

摘要

Legendre polynomial expansions are derived for the interaction potential of molecules with a distance dgr; between the center of interaction and the center of mass. The scattering cross sections converge to a final value for a small number of terms of the expansion. The effect of the asymmetry parameter dgr; is to cause a quenching and a shift of the orbiting maxima in weakly coupled systems. The differential inelastic cross sections increase rapidly from zero with growing dgr;.