Formation of molecular oxygen in ultracold O + OH reaction

Details Formation of molecular oxygen in ultracold O + OH reaction Formation of molecular oxygen in ultracold O + OH reaction

2008-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/0811.4377v1

Phys. Rev. A 79, 022703 (2008)

Physics

Chemical Physics

9 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.022703

We discuss the formation of molecular oxygen in ultracold collisions between hydroxyl radicals and atomic oxygen. A time-independent quantum formalism based on hyperspherical coordinates is employed for the calculations. Elastic, inelastic and reactive cross sections as well as the vibrational and rotational populations of the product O2 molecules are reported. A J-shifting approximation is used to compute the rate coefficients. At temperatures T = 10 - 100 mK for which the OH molecules have been cooled and trapped experimentally, the elastic and reactive rate coefficients are of comparable magnitude, while at colder temperatures, T < 1 mK, the formation of molecular oxygen becomes the dominant pathway. The validity of a classical capture model to describe cold collisions of OH and O is also discussed. While very good agreement is found between classical and quantum results at T=0.3 K, at higher temperatures, the quantum calculations predict a larger rate coefficient than the classical model, in agreement with experimental data for the O + OH reaction. The zero-temperature limiting value of the rate coefficient is predicted to be about 6.10^{-12} cm^3 molecule^{-1} s^{-1}, a value comparable to that of barrierless alkali-metal atom - dimer systems and about a factor of five larger than that of the tunneling dominated F + H2 reaction.

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