title: Velocity-changing collisions in pure H2 and H2-Ar mixture.
abstract: We show how to effectively introduce a proper description of the velocity-changing collisions into the model of isolated molecular transition for the case of self- and Ar-perturbed H2. We demonstrate that the billiard-ball (BB) approximation of the H2-H2 and H2-Ar potentials gives an accurate description of the velocity-changing collisions. The BB model results are compared with ab initio classical molecular dynamics simulations. It is shown that the BB model correctly reproduces not only the principal properties such as frequencies of velocity-changing collisions or collision kernels, but also other characteristics of H2-H2 and H2-Ar gas kinetics like rate of speed-changing collisions. Finally, we present line-shape measurement of the Q(1) line of the first overtone band of self-perturbed H2. We quantify the systematic errors of line-shape analysis caused by the use of oversimplified description of velocity-changing collisions. These conclusions will have significant impact on recent rapidly developing ultra-accurate metrology based on Doppler-limited spectroscopic measurements such as Doppler-width thermometry, atmosphere monitoring, Boltzmann constant determination, or transition position and intensity determination for fundamental studies.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5/7, 87-100 Torun, Poland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wcisło
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), CNRS UMR 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil, Université Paris Diderot, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, 94010 Créteil Cedex, France.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tran
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, CNRS UMR 5588, Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble B.P. 87, 38402 Saint-Martin d'Héres Cedex, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kassi
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, CNRS UMR 5588, Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble B.P. 87, 38402 Saint-Martin d'Héres Cedex, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campargue
authors.affiliation: Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR CNRS 6251, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, Bât.11B, F-35042 Rennes, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thibault
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5/7, 87-100 Torun, Poland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ciuryło