Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Semiclassical methods for calculating radiative association rate constants for different thermodynamic conditions: Application to formation of CO, CN, and SiN
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Material Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7629-0169
Pennsylvania State University, Reading, USA.
2019 (English)In: Journal of Chemical Physics, ISSN 0021-9606, E-ISSN 1089-7690, ISSN 0021-9606, Vol. 150, no 22, article id 224301Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

It is well-known that resonances can serve as a catalyst for molecule formation. Rate constants for resonance-induced molecule formation are phenomenological as they depend upon the mechanism used to populate the resonances. Standard treatments assume tunneling from the continuum is the only available population mechanism, which means long-lived quasibound states are essentially unpopulated. However, if a fast resonance population mechanism exists, the long-lived quasibound states may be populated and give rise to a substantial increase in the molecule formation rate constant. In the present work, we show that the semiclassical formula of Kramers and ter Haar [Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth. 10, 137 (1946)] may be used to compute rate constants for radiative association in the limit of local thermodynamic equilibrium. Comparisons are made with quantum mechanical and standard semiclassical treatments, and results are shown for two limits which provide upper and lower bounds for the six most important radiative association reactions leading to the formation of CO, CN, and SiN. These results may have implications for interstellar chemistry in molecular clouds, where the environmental and thermodynamic conditions often are uncertain.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2019. Vol. 150, no 22, article id 224301
National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics Other Physics Topics
Research subject
Applied Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74401DOI: 10.1063/1.5090587ISI: 000471692400009PubMedID: 31202215Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85067230821OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-74401DiVA, id: diva2:1323290
Note

Validerad;2019;Nivå 2;2019-06-17 (svasva)

Available from: 2019-06-11 Created: 2019-06-11 Last updated: 2019-07-10Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textPubMedScopus

Authority records

Gustafsson, Magnus

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Gustafsson, Magnus
By organisation
Material Science
In the same journal
Journal of Chemical Physics
Atom and Molecular Physics and OpticsOther Physics Topics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn
Total: 78 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf