Photoionization of jet-cooled HI with coherent vacuum ultraviolet radiation: Evidence for Hund’s case (e).

Autor: Mank, A., Drescher, M., Huth-Fehre, T., Böwering, N., Heinzmann, U., Lefebvre-Brion, H.
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Zdroj: Journal of Chemical Physics; 8/1/1991, Vol. 95 Issue 3, p1676, 12p
Abstrakt: In the range of 83 500–89 200 cm-1, the photoionization spectrum of HI is strongly influenced by autoionization of Rydberg series converging to the higher lying 2Π1/2 component of the spin–orbit split 2Π ionic ground state. The photoelectron yield spectrum, exhibiting the various autoionization processes, has been measured on a rotationally cooled sample (Trot∼13 K), with a spectral resolution of the exciting vacuum ultraviolet radiation of 0.5 cm-1. Using a multichannel quantum-defect theory treatment explicitly including rotation, we calculate spin–orbit and rotational autoionization fine structure in the spectrum. In order to find a qualitative agreement of theory and experiment, the Rydberg states of HI have to be described in terms of a transition in angular momentum coupling cases, going from Hund’s case (c) to case (e). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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