Vibrationally resolved NO dissociative excitation cross sections by electron impact

V Laporta (1) , J Tennyson (2) , Ioan Schneider (3, 4)

1 ISTP - Istituto per la Scienza e la Tecnologia dei Plasmi
2 UCL - University College of London [London]
3 LOMC - Laboratoire Ondes et Milieux Complexes
4 LAC - Laboratoire Aimé Cotton

Abstract A theoretical investigation of the dissociative excitation by electron impact on the NO molecule is presented, aiming to make up for the lack of data for this process in the literature. A full set of vibrationally-resolved cross sections and corresponding rate coefficients are calculated using the local-complex-potential approach and five resonant states of NO − .

Keywords: plasma physics; molecular dynamics; NO pollution; NO dissociation; plasma physics

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Quantum Physics [quant-ph]

V Laporta, J Tennyson, Ioan Schneider. Vibrationally resolved NO dissociative excitation cross sections by electron impact. Plasma Sources Science and Technology, 2020, 29 (5), pp.05LT02. ⟨10.1088/1361-6595/ab86d8⟩. ⟨hal-03652544⟩