title: Nonadiabatic photodissociation dynamics in (HI)2 induced by intracluster collisions.
abstract: The sequential photodissociation dynamics of (HI)2 is studied by means of a nonadiabatic wave packet treatment starting from the I*-HI complex. The model reproduces the main experimental findings for photolysis with 266 nm radiation. The results confirm that some of the H atoms dissociated from the I*-HI complex deactivate the I* atom through a HI* intracluster collision which induces an I*-->I electronically nonadiabatic transition. As a consequence, these H fragments become very fast by acquiring nearly all the I* excitation energy, equivalent to the I*I spin-orbit splitting. A most interesting result is the high production of bound I2 fragments in highly excited rovibrational states in the photolysis, indicating that the H dissociation is mainly direct.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental, C.S.I.C., Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: López-López
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prosmiti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Vela