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SCIENCE
Volume 327, Issue 5972, Pages 1501-1502Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185694
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China
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Partial wave resonances, quasi-bound resonance states with well-defined rotation in the transition state region of a chemical reaction, play a governing role in reaction dynamics but have eluded direct experimental characterization. Here, we report the observation of individual partial wave resolved resonances in the F + HD -> HF + D reaction by measuring the collision energy-dependent, angle-and state-resolved differential cross section with extremely high resolution, providing a spectroscopic probe to the transition state of F + HD -> HF + D. The agreement of the data with the high-level theoretical calculations confirms the sensitivity of this probe to the subtle quantum mechanical factors guiding this benchmark reaction.
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