Rotational branching ratios and photoelectron angular distributions in resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization of diatomic molecules
- Creators
- Wang, Kwanghsi
- McKoy, V.
Abstract
In this paper we extend a previous formulation of molecular resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) photoelectron spectra to explicitly include multiplet‐specific final state wave functions and intermediate coupling schemes. The results of this formulation should be well suited and helpful in quantitative theoretical studies of rotationally resolved REMPI spectra in many diatomic molecules of interest. As an example, we use this formulation to study the rotational branching ratios and photoelectron angular distributions for (3+1) REMPI of NH via the 3 ^3Π Rydberg resonant state. The predicted anomalous rotational distributions are interpreted as arising from a Cooper minimum in the l=2 component of the kπ photoionization channel. A number of other results are obtained and discussed.
Additional Information
© 1991 American Institute of Physics. (Received 2 May 1991; accepted 17 June 1991) This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (CHE-8521391), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Contract No. 87-0039), and the Office of Health and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG03-87ER60513). We also acknowledge use of resources of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, which is supported by the National Science Foundation, and the resources of the JPL/Caltech CRAY X-MP/18 Supercomputer. K.W. thanks Dr. S. N. Dixit for the useful discussions in the early stage of this work and Dr. J. A. Stephens for the help in obtaining the NH wave functions.Attached Files
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- 61655
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20151028-114734233
- CHE-8521391
- NSF
- 87-0039
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- DE-FG03-87ER60513
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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- Caltech Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics
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- 8435