title: Classical treatment of molecular collisions: striking improvement of the description of recoil energy distributions using Gaussian weighted trajectories.
abstract: The Gaussian weighting (GW) procedure, recently used in the classical treatment of molecular collisions, is a practical way of taking into account quantization of product vibrational actions. The goal of this brief communication is to show that the GW procedure may drastically improve the predictions of the recoil energy distribution between final fragments, an observable frequently measured in molecular beam experiments.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, Université Bordeaux 1, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: González-Martínez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonnet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Larrégaray
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Rayez