title: Role of the F spin-orbit excited state in the F+HD reaction: contributions to the dynamical resonance.
abstract: We report quantum mechanical calculations of excitation functions (relative reaction cross sections) for the F+HD reaction. We include three potential energy surfaces and an accurate treatment of all couplings (non-adiabatic, spin-orbit, and Coriolis). Comparison with experimental results [Dong, Lee, and Liu, J. Chem. Phys., 113, 3633 (2000)] show excellent agreement for the DF product channel and an improved but not perfect agreement for the HF product channel. In the former case, when weighted by the (16%) fractional population of the spin-orbit excited state (F(*)) in the beam, the overall reactivity of the F(*) is small (approximately 5%). For the HF product channel and with the same (16%) fractional weight, F(*) reactivity makes a contribution of approximately 12% in the high-energy tail of the resonance peak. As a result, averaging over the population of F spin-orbit states in the beam changes the shape of the resonance. The greater the fraction of F(*) in the beam, the less pronounced will be the resonance modulation of the reaction excitation function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Chemical Physics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-2021, USA.
authors.forename: Yi-Ren
authors.initials: YR
authors.lastname: Tzeng
authors.forename: Millard H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Alexander