Experimental Investigation of Resonances in Reactive Scattering: The F +H2Reaction

Abstract
The reaction F+pH2HF+H was studied in a high-resolution crossed-molecular-beams experiment at a collision energy of 1.84 kcal/mole. Center-of-mass translational energy and angular distributions were determined for each product vibrational state. The v=3 product showed intense forward scattering while the v=2 product was backward peaked. These results suggest that dynamical resonances play an important role in the reaction dynamics of this system.