| Title | State-Selected Reaction of Muonium with Vibrationally Excited H-2 |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2012 |
| Authors | Bakule, P, Fleming, DG, Sukhorukov, O, Ishida, K, Pratt, F, Momose, T, Torikai, E, Mielke, SL, Garrett, BC, Peterson, KA, Schatz, GC, Truhlar, DG |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pagination | 2755-2760 |
| Date Published | OCT 4 |
| ISSN | 1948-7185 |
| Abstract | We report a new advance in the study of muonium (Mu) reactivity; specifically, we report the rate constant for the Mu + H-2(vibrational quantum number n = 1) reaction determined by measurements at 300 K and by converged quantum mechanical calculations. Comparisons are made with earlier results for D + H-2 (n = 1) and with the corresponding thermal reaction rates. The measurements are a sensitive probe of the high-curvature region in the entrance valley of the potential energy surface (PES) and thus provide a qualitatively different probe of the PES than that provided by any previous experiment. |
| DOI | 10.1021/jz3011496 |
