VIBRATIONAL ENERGY SURVIVAL PROBABILITY IN MOLECULAR BEAM SCATTERING: NO(v equals 1)/LiF(100).

Abstract

Summary form only given. The authors report here the survival probability for the scattering of a well-characterized molecular beam of vibrationally excited NO from a LiF(100) surface. Laser spectroscopic techniques are combined with molecular beam techniques to perform state-to-state scattering experiments. In these experiments, two laser beams intersect a supersonic molecular beam of NO. The state-to-state scattering experiments reported here give details of the scattering from an initial single electronic, vibrational, and rotational state with a narrow velocity distribution into specific final channels on collision with a clean well-defined surface and permit a more careful comparison with theoretical calculations than is possible with static gas sample techniques.