Sanchit Kumar

Transport Cross Sections and Collisional Energy Relaxation of Superthermal O(3P) Atoms in N2 for Planetary Aeronomy

Abstract Superthermal (“hot”) oxygen atoms deposit their energy in planetary upper atmospheres and in hypersonic shock layers through collisions with N2, but the rate at which they do so is set not by the magnitude of the collision cross section, which is dominated by forward dif...