Calculation of rate coefficients of electron energy transfer processes for molecular nitrogen and molecular oxygen

Abstract

Cross sections and rate coefficients of electronic quenching for triplet and singlet states of molecular nitrogen and molecular oxygen in molecular inelastic collisions N 2–N 2 and O 2–O 2 were calculated from analytical expressions. Electronic quenching is considered as a sum of quasi-resonant intramolecular and intermolecular electron energy transfer processes in inelastic interactions. In most conditions good agreement with experimental data is obtained.