Complex Angular Momentum Theory of Molecular Collisions: New Phase Rules for Rotationally Inelastic Diffraction Scattering in Atom-Homonuclear Diatomic Molecule Collisions
New phase rules have been derived for the rotationally inelastic diffraction scattering of an atom with a nomonuclear diatomic molecule. The phase rules are obtained by applying semiclassical complex angular momentum techniques to the infinite order sudden approximation.
This paper is the fourth in a series concerned with a new approach to the theory of rotationally inelastic molecular scattering.