Date Published:

NOV 8

Abstract:

The photodissociation of HCl in the Ar-HCl cluster has been studied theoretically using a classical trajectory method to explore the effect of a ``solvent'' atom on the process. The calculated kinetic energy and angular distributions of the photofragments show a ``cage'' effect, due to collisions between H and the heavy atoms before H leaves the cluster. Also, significant differences are seen depending on whether a classical or a quasiclassical distribution is used to describe the initial Ar-HCl bending distribution.