| | Pubs.GISS: Green 1988. 'Effect of nuclear hyperfine structure on microwave spectral pressure broadening' (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | 145, 7 (1966)] is applied to rotational transitions of a closed-shell linear molecule with nuclear quadrupole hyperfine structure (hfs) due to a nucleus of spin I. If, as expected, nuclear spin does not affect molecular collision dynamics, generalized pressure broadening cross sections can be expressed in terms of the spin-free collisional S matrices. |
 | | For the three hfs components of the lowest j=0-1 rotational transition, the line shape is a simple sum of three noninterfering Lorentzians each of which has the same width and shift as would be expected in the absence of nuclear spin. |
 | | For the case that broadening is very large compared with the hfs splittings it is shown (numerically, within the IOS approximation) that the line shape is nearly (but not exactly, except for j=0-1 as noted above) a Lorentzian with the same width as would be expected in the absenc of nuclear spin. |
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