ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
A new method is presented to measure the polarization dependence of double-differential cross sections for the scattering of laser-excited atoms. This allows us to study these polarization effects separated for different scattering processes, which contribute to the total differential cross section at one laboratory angle. A first application demonstrates that the new technique allows us to study the polarization dependence of the reactive and the nonreactive cross sections for collisions of Na(32P3/2) with HF molecules even though, in this example, the polarization dependence of the total differential cross section is only 0.5%.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1141477
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