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Molecular Physics
An International Journal at the Interface Between Chemistry and Physics
Volume 119, 2021 - Issue 5
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Research Articles

Relaxation processes in non-reactive collisions of H2 and N2 at high translational energies

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Article: e1831635 | Received 30 Jul 2020, Accepted 25 Sep 2020, Published online: 16 Oct 2020
 

ABSTRACT

The present work reported a full-dimension quasi-classical trajectory study of the activation and deactivation processes in the collisions of N2 and H2, when one of the molecules is vibrationally excited. In the present calculations, for the first time in the scientific literature for the studied system, a wide range of high translational energies is covered. To simulate the interatomic potential energy, acting during collisions, a single-valued potential energy surface for the electronic ground state of N2H2 previously reported is used. Cross-sections and rates for activation and deactivation processes of the initial vibrationally excited molecules and cross-sections and rates for activation of the molecule that initially is in the ground vibrational state are calculated. Additionally, probabilities of rotational excitation of both molecules and an estimation of the cross-section of the possible reactions for high vibrationally excited molecules are reported. These results could improve the modelling studies of the shock waves, the low-temperature plasma, the gas flows produced around hyper sonic flying objects, and others.

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Acknowledgments

Calculations in this work were carried out at the LCAD facilities, UNILA.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

J.d.D.G. acknowledge the financial support from CAPES, code 001.

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