DISSOCIATIVE ATTACHMECHMENT OF ELECTRON TO HOT DIATOMIC
MOLECULES: HCl, H2

Martin Cizek (1), Jiri Horacek (1), Wolfgang Domcke (2)

(1) Department of Theoretical Physics, Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic;
(2) Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Heinrich Heine
University, Duesseldorf, Germany

Nonlocal resonance model has been used to calculate cross 
sections for dissociative attachment of electrons to 
ro-vibrationally excited H2 and HCl molecules. Cross sections
for individual ro-vibrational states were averaged over thermal
distribution of the states and compared with experiments. 
Excellent agreement was found between the measurements and the 
theory, but for the temperature ~25% higher than reported 
in the experiment.