학술논문

Evaporation and scattering of neon, methane, and water from a dodecane flat liquid jet.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Chemical Physics. 8/7/2023, Vol. 159 Issue 5, p1-10. 10p.
Subject
*ANGULAR distribution (Nuclear physics)
*THERMAL desorption
*LIQUID surfaces
*MOMENTUM transfer
*MOLECULAR beams
Language
ISSN
0021-9606
Abstract
The evaporation and scattering of Ne, CD4, and D2O from a dodecane flat liquid jet are investigated in a molecular beam apparatus. The experiment yields translational energy distributions as a function of scattering angle by means of a rotatable mass spectrometer. In the evaporation experiments, one observes a Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution with a cos θ angular distribution superimposed on a weak, isotropic background. The scattering experiments show contributions from impulsive scattering and thermal desorption. At select incident angles for the three systems, angular distributions show super-specular scattering for the impulsive scattering channel, an effect attributed to anisotropic momentum transfer to the liquid surface. The impulsive scattering channel is analyzed with a soft-sphere model to explore energy transfer between the scatterer and liquid as a function of deflection angle. Compared to Ne scattering, the polyatomic gases exhibit more thermal desorption and, in the impulsive scattering channel, a higher degree of internal excitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]