TIME-DEPENDENT QUANTUM MECHANICAL TREATMENT OF He–CO INELASTIC SCATTERING

Abstract

The state-to-state and state-to-all reaction probabilities for He + CO (v,j)→ He + CO (v',j') reaction at zero total angular momentum have been calculated by using a time-dependent quantum wave packet method. The time-dependent method used is based on Fourier Grid and Discrete Variable Representation (DVR) techniques. The time-dependent propagation of the wave packet is accomplished by an expansion in terms of modified complex chebyshev polynomials. The results show that the He + CO reaction is not reactive in the studied energy range.