Rotational excitation in collisions between two rigid rotors - Alternate angular momentum coupling and pressure broadening of HCl by H2

In order to compute relaxation 'cross sections' for molecule-molecule collisions, it is convenient to employ a coupled angular-momentum representation which differs from that generally used. An explicit expression for collision-induced spectral pressure broadening in this representation is given, and this is used to examine the difference between para- and ortho-H2 for broadening of HCl.