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SCIENCE
卷 331, 期 6016, 页码 448-450出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1199421
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
The neutral muonic helium atom may be regarded as the heaviest isotope of the hydrogen atom, with a mass of similar to 4.1 atomic mass units (H-4.1), because the negative muon almost perfectly screens one proton charge. We report the reaction rate of H-4.1 with H-1(2) to produce (HH)-H-4.1-H-1 + H-1 at 295 to 500 kelvin. The experimental rate constants are compared with the predictions of accurate quantum-mechanical dynamics calculations carried out on an accurate Born-Huang potential energy surface and with previously measured rate constants of H-0.11 (where H-0.11 is shorthand for muonium). Kinetic isotope effects can be compared for the unprecedentedly large mass ratio of 36. The agreement with accurate quantum dynamics is quantitative at 500 kelvin, and variational transition-state theory is used to interpret the extremely low (large inverse) kinetic isotope effects in the 10(-4) to 10(-2) range.
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