Analytic estimation of almost-resonant molecular energy transfer due to multipolar potentials. II. V V relaxation of the laser levels of CF4

A quantal almost-resonant collisional energy transfer theory with a natural cutoff for the Born approximation is extended to spherical-top polyatomic molecules and used to calculate the rate from 100–400 K for the almost-resonant vibration to vibration process which depletes the upper laser level and populates the lower laser level of CF4.