Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010mss..confemi11c&link_type=abstract
"International Symposium On Molecular Spectroscopy, 65th Meeting, Held 21-25 June, 2010 at Ohio State University. http://molspec
Physics
Radicals And Ions
Scientific paper
Saturation dip spectroscopy has been used to measure rovibronic transitions in the ~b ^1B_1 ← ~a ^1A_1 band system of CH_2 at sub-Doppler resolution. The radical was made by 308 nm excimer laser photolysis of a slowly flowing, low-pressure, sample of ketene (CH_2CO), optionally with added inert buffer gas. Typical observed linewidths in the pure precursor are approximately 8 MHz (FWHM), due to a combination of collisional lifetime and pump-probe beam crossing angle. Due to the non-zero ^1H proton nuclear spin, CH_2 exists as two distinct variants, ortho-CH_2 with I_H = 1 and para-CH_2 with I_H = 0. In ortho-CH_2, each rotational level consists of a triplet of hyperfine components corresponding to levels with F= J, J ± 1. Most singlet CH_2 transitions show unresolved hyperfine structure in our experiment, since the largest splitting is due to I.J coupling, typically of the order of kHz. However, a small number of rotational levels in the v=0 level of the lower ~a state are known to be perturbed by accidentally near degenerate. ~X ^3B_1-state levels via spin-orbit coupling. Spectra involving such levels in ortho-CH_2 exhibit resolvable triplet, I.S, hyperfine splittings, with the splittings providing a direct measure of triplet state character of the level. We have measured hyperfine splittings for a number of pairs of perturbed levels confirming and refining previous estimates of the singlet-triplet mixing coefficients. Measurements of the pressure-dependent saturation recovery rates with different collision partners can give new insights into dephasing, velocity-changing and inelastic collisions relevant to pressure broadening and intersystem crossing mechanisms. Acknowledgments: Work at Brookhaven National Laboratory was carried out under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy and supported by its Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences.
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Chang Chih-Hsuan
Hall Gregory E.
Sears Trevor J.
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