Abstract

Absolute integral cross sections for collisions of CH 4 with Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe are measured as a function of velocity at thermal energies in a molecular beam apparatus. The presence of fully developed glory oscillations indicates that the anisotropy of methane plays only a minor role in these experiments. The data can therefore be treated in terms of a central force-field assumption. The validity of this assumption is confirmed by comparison with the behaviour of other systems through a correlation between the potential parameters and the polarizabilities.

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