Interpretation of experimental differential elastic scattering cross section for H/+/ + Ne.

The interatomic V(r) found by potential-model calculations is compared to an ab initio calculation of the intermolecular potential for NeH+ due to Peyerimhoff (1965). The reason for a rather significant difference in the two results is discussed, and a new method due to Remler (1971) involving Regge poles is applied. The method can be used to calculate the differential cross section, where the starting point for such calculations is based on intuition in light of the classical deflection function.