Abstract
We present measurements and calculations of infrared transitions between highly rotationally excited states of HD+. Some of the states involved are rotationally quasibound levels lying up to 2300 cm-1 above the lowest dissociation limit, H++D(1s). The transitions to quasibound levels were located using new ab initio artificial channels scattering theory calculations, and recorded by monitoring the fragments produced by rotational predissociation through the centrifugal barrier. The bound to bound transitions were recorded by monitoring fragments produced by photodissociation. Experimental measurements of absolute transition wavenumbers are found to be in excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions. Predissociation linewidths were also measured and are compared with theoretical calculations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 145-166 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics |
| Volume | 166 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 1992 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:AC thanks the Royal Society for a ResearchP rofes-sorship, CAL thanks the Royal Society for a Research Fellowship, IRM thanks the University of Southampton for a Research Fellowship and MRV and YDW thank British Petroleum PLC for research studentships. The authors are grateful to the SERC for funding this researchw ith grants for equipment and studentshipst o CHP and AJM. REM is grateful to Drs. G.G. Balint-Kurti and I.A. Sadler for their collaboration on the original program for the artificial channels scatteringm ethod. RAK thanks Professor M.S. Child, F.R.S. for helpful correspondence.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry