Wave packet formulation of the boomerang model for resonant electron–molecule scattering

• DOI: 10.1063/1.444677
• Publication Date: 2003-02-28T16:47:06Z
• Authors: C. William McCurdy; Julia L. Turner
• Keywords: Polyatomic ion; Semiclassical physics; Metastability; Electron scattering

A time-dependent formulation of the boomerang model for resonant electron–molecule scattering is presented in terms a wave packet propagating on complex potential surface metastable anion. The results calculations using efficient semiclassical techniques are found to be excellent agreement with full quantum-mechanical vibrational excitation cross sections e−–N2 scattering. application as computational and conceptual approach problem collisions polyatomic molecules discussed light recent photodissociation Raman spectra.