Molecular Beam Depletion: A New Approach

Manuel Dorado

CIRTA, Rotation and Torque Research Center, Theoretical Group, Madrid, Spain.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2014.512116                

Abstract

During the last years some interesting experimental results have been reported for experiments in N₂O, NO, NO dimer, H₂, Toluene and BaFCH₃ cluster. The main result consists in the observation of molecular beam depletion when the molecules of a pulsed beam interact with a static electric or magnetic field and an oscillating field (RF). In these cases, and as a main difference, instead of using four fields as in the original technique developed by I.I. Rabi and others, only two fields, those which configure the resonant unit, are used. That is, without using the nonhomogeneous magnetic fields. The depletion explanation for I.I. Rabi and others is based in the interaction between the molecular electric or magnetic dipole moment and the non-homogeneous fields. But, obviously, the change in the molecules trajectories observed on these new experiments has to be explained without considering the force provided by the field gradient because it happens without using non-homogeneous fields. In this paper a theoretical way for the explanation of these new experimental results is presented. One important point emerges as a result of this development, namely, the existence of an, until now unknown, spin-dependent force which would be responsible of the aforementioned deviation of the molecules.

Keywords

Molecular Beam Magnetic Resonance, Molecular Beam Depletion, Larmor Precession, Helicity

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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