Close-coupling calculations of rotational energy transfer in p-H2+HD

Abstract

We report quantum-mechanical close-coupling calculations for rotational state resolved cross sections for p-H2+HD collisions. The low temperature limit of p-H2+HD is investigated, which is of significant astrophysical interest in regard to the cooling of primordial gas and the interstellar media. Sharp resonances have been reproduced in the cross sections of some transition states at very low kinetic energies, E< 0.00001 eV.