Scattering wavefunction, body-fixed

The asymptotic form of the body-fixed radial scattering wavefunction,... 

The form of the scattering wavefunction has been represented in a very general manner, specifically, as a product of a function in body-fixed coordinates the parity-adapted total angular momenrnm... 

The first part of the review deals with aspects of photodissociation theory and the second, with reactive scattering theory. Three appendix sections are devoted to important technical details of photodissociation theory, namely, the detailed form of the parity-adapted body-fixed scattering wavefunction needed to analyze the asymptotic wavefunction in photodissociation theory, the definition of the initial wavepacket in photodissociation theory and its relationship to the initial bound-state wavepacket, and finally the theory of differential state-specific photo-fragmentation cross sections. Many of the details developed in these appendix sections are also relevant to the theory of reactive scattering. 

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