Observation of enhanced rate coefficients in the H₂⁺+H₂→H₃⁺+H reaction at low collision enrgies. Allmendinger, P., Deiglmayr, J., Höveler, K., Schullian, O., & Merkt, F. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 145(24):244316, 2016.
Observation of enhanced rate coefficients in the H₂⁺+H₂→H₃⁺+H reaction at low collision enrgies [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
The energy dependence of the rate coefficient of the H2++H2→H3++H reaction has been measured in the range of collision energies between kB 10K and kB⋅300mK. A clear deviation of the rate coefficient from the value expected on the basis of the classical Langevin-capture behavior has been observed at collision energies below kB⋅1K, which is attributed to the joint effects of the ion-quadrupole and Coriolis interactions in collisions involving ortho-H2 molecules in the  j = 1 rotational level, which make up 75% of the population of the neutral H2 molecules in the experiments. The experimental results are compared to very recent predictions by Dashevskaya et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 145, 244315 (2016)], with which they are in agreement.
@article{allmendinger_observation_2016,
	title = {Observation of enhanced rate coefficients in the {H}₂⁺+{H}₂→{H}₃⁺+{H} reaction at low collision enrgies},
	volume = {145},
	issn = {0021-9606},
	url = {http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4972130},
	doi = {10.1063/1.4972130},
	abstract = {The energy dependence of the rate coefficient of the H2++H2→H3++H reaction has been measured in the range of collision energies between kB 10K and kB⋅300mK. A clear deviation of the rate coefficient from the value expected on the basis of the classical Langevin-capture behavior has been observed at collision energies below kB⋅1K, which is attributed to the joint effects of the ion-quadrupole and Coriolis interactions in collisions involving ortho-H2 molecules in the  j = 1 rotational level, which make up 75\% of the population of the neutral H2 molecules in the experiments. The experimental results are compared to very recent predictions by Dashevskaya et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 145, 244315 (2016)], with which they are in agreement.},
	number = {24},
	urldate = {2017-01-18},
	journal = {The Journal of Chemical Physics},
	author = {Allmendinger, Pitt and Deiglmayr, Johannes and Höveler, Katharina and Schullian, Otto and Merkt, Frédéric},
	year = {2016},
	keywords = {Cold chemistry, Cold molecules},
	pages = {244316},
}

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