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Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
; 57(4): 705-16, 2001 Mar 15.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11345248
RESUMO
A novel ion cell has been constructed for the purpose of studying rotationally inelastic collisions involving truly thermal molecular ions at low temperatures. With this ion cell, time-resolved double resonance (pump-probe) spectroscopic experiments have been performed to determine the cross sections for relaxation of the J = 2 state of HCO+ in collisions with normal-H2 at temperatures around 40 and 77 K. The HCO+ is pumped through the J = 2<--1 transition and probed via the J = 3<--2 transition. The cross sections at the lower temperature are slightly below those predicted by the simple Langevin theory, while those at the higher temperature are in good agreement with this theory.