The mutual influence of reactive and non-reactive scattering channels in atom--molecule collisions.

In this work, we study D+H$_2$ collisions for the main purpose of understanding the influence of the reactive scattering channels on the non-reactive scattering channels. We will present a detailed quantitative comparison between the results of full calculations (including rearrangement) and non-reactive calculations. We perform this comparison by artificially eliminating the possibility of rearrangement and by allowing only for inelastic scattering.