Theoretical and experimental studies of Δj and Δm transitions in small angle collisions of polarized CsF with atoms and molecules

An important tool for obtaining information about the anisotropic part of the intermolecular potential of molecule-molecule or molecule-atom systems is the study of the rotationally inelastic scattering cross sections at thermal energies. The rotational state selection method used here still provides the only method for measuring these cross sections for transitions between defined quantum states for molecules other than H2. The measured absolute incomplete integral inelastic cross sections for the CsF-rare gas systems are compared with theoretically predicted values. (Auth.)