Ozone isotopic composition: an angular effect in scattering processes?

C. Camy-Peyret (1) , F. Robert (2)

1 LPMA - Laboratoire de Physique moléculaire et applications
2 Laboratoire de minéralogie

The ratio of the differential scattering cross sections involving distinguishable and indistinguishable isotopes may exhibit non-mass dependent angular variations. A numerical application of this hypotheses to the ozone reaction rates reproduces some of the results observed in laboratory experiments. This theory could be tested through a cross beam experiment where the isotopic composition of the scattered products is recorded as a function of their scattering angles.

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère; Sciences de la Terre

C. Camy-Peyret, F. Robert. Ozone isotopic composition: an angular effect in scattering processes?. Annales Geophysicae, 2001, 19 (2), pp.229-244. ⟨hal-00329154⟩