A hard-sphere model for the reactions of two diatomic molecules with ionic bond Original Research Article

We propose an impulsive model for the interaction between two alkali halide molecules. The excitation functions for various channels of the reactions RbBr+RbBr, CsBr+CsBr, RbCl+CsI, and RbI+CsCl obtained within this model exhibit a qualitative agreement with the results of exact quasiclassical trajectory calculations.