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Roaming in the isotopic reactions of H + MgD and D + MgH

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In this article, the dynamics of the nonreactive and abstraction channels for H + MgD and D + MgH reactions at low collision energies are studied with the quasi-classical trajectory method. Isotopic effects on both differential cross sections and the state distributions are obvious. By distinguishing the roaming processes into roaming during the reaction and roaming before product, differences in state distributions of the products and the isotopic effects are found in these two types of roaming.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.]

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H. Yang thanks Prof. Joel M. Bowman for suggestions when visiting at Emory University. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 12174221 and No. 11674196). H. Yang is grateful for the support of the Taishan Scholars Project of Shandong Province (Grant No. ts201712011).

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Wang, X., Zheng, Y. & Yang, H. Roaming in the isotopic reactions of H + MgD and D + MgH. Eur. Phys. J. D 76, 184 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-022-00518-z

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