Moderated Nuclear Recoil experiments

In maintaining the narrow focus of this chapter, several important topics have been omitted. The caged recombination reactions that occur in condensed phase recoil experiments exhibit unusual dynamical characteristics (11,26,28,31,35,96). The energetic F-to-HF process shown in Equation 9 has been particularly important from a theoretical standpoint (22,24,29,30,32,34-37,39,40,43,44,49,52). The moderated nuclear recoil technique has provided accurate kinetic parameters for thermal F reactions (24,42,46,52-65,60) that have facilitated the recent development of a realistic potential extended collision theory for activationless bimolecular reactions (42,103),... 

Later sections describe the modeling procedure and results obtained for nuclear recoil atoms reacting with pure (70) and inert gas moderated (71) H2. These reaction systems have been chosen for study because of the availability of quasl-classical trajectory reaction cross sections (51) together with results from thermal (21.72) and nonthermal ( 7 nuclestr recoil experiments. 

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