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Dc Slice Imaging, Crossed Beam Reaction Of Chlorine Radical With Butane, Tarek Oussama Abdul Ghani

Wayne State University Theses

We present an investigation of the reaction dynamics of Cl radicals with

Butane using crossed molecular beams, at two collision energies: ~ 6.5 and 9 kcal/mol. The product butyl radical was ionized using a 157 nm probe laser, and detection was through a dc slice detection setup. The translational energy distributions looked similar for both collision energies. The angular distribution shows that at the high collision energy there is a sharp increase in the forward scattering. At low collision energy there is more backscattering. The results show that the different scattering angles give different translational energy distribution. The forward scattered …