Processes Involving Heavy Particles
Quantitative data on the rate constants of equilibrium chemical reactions are of great importance for kinetic modeling in combustion, materials science, environmental chemistry, plasma chemistry, and plasma processing. The state-of-the-art models of thermal chemical reactions are based on qualitative physical ideas about the character of electronic potential surfaces of the interacting systems. The dynamics problem is treated with well-tested versions of the statistical approach. Processes involving heavy particles include the following groups:
- Direct bimolecular reaction
- Bimolecular reaction bia an intermediate complex
- Unimolecular decomposition reaction
- Unimolecular isomerization reaction
- Termomolecular reaction
- Ion-molecular reactions
- Bimolecular ion-molecular reaction
- Charge transfer
- Clusterization
- Energy exchange processes
- Vibrational energy exchange
- Electronic-vibrational-translational energy exchange
- Radiation line broadening in collisions with heavy particles
