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Elastic Scattering Cross Sections I: Spherical Potentials

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Atom - Molecule Collision Theory

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It was clearly realized more than fifty years ago that the experimental investigation of atomic collision processes with molecular beams provides an ideal method for the determination of intermolecular potentials. Excellent pioneering experiments were performed by Stern, Rabi, Knauer, Frazer, and others(1–3) and the first quantum-mechanical calculations of cross sections were carried out by Massey and Mohr.(4) In spite of this successful beginning, a decisive breakthrough was not achieved.

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