Quantum dynamics study of the D$^+$ + H$_2$ reaction at low temperature

2013

International audience; For chemistry networks describing the reactions for the early universe and especially for accurate models of the enrichment of deuterated molecules observed, we need to know in detail many state-to-state rate coefficients. For instance, Glover and Abel [1] modeled the chemistry of H2 and HD primordial gas using a chemical network consisting of 115 reactions between 16 species. Today most of the rate coefficients of interesting reactions are still unknown or with a poor accuracy. For example, the uncertainty about the rate coefficient for the reaction D+ + H2 --> HD + H+ directly affects model predictions for the HD abundance and thereby the cooling rate of the primor…