Absorption Spectrum Of Electrically Excited Nitrogen Molecules In The Vacuum Uv Region PDF Download

A 6.65 metre vacuum spectrograph operated at a wavelength resolution of 0.0006 nm has been used to study the spectroscopy of rare gas molecules relevant to the development of intense vacuum ultraviolet radiation sources and lasers, and photoabsorption and predissociation processes in molecular nitrogen, which in the 80-100 nm region are important sources of upper atmospheric atomic nitrogen. Absorption spectra of XeHe, XeNe, XeAr, XeKr, KrHe, KrNe, and KrAr have been photographed and interpreted as arising from transitions from bound ground states to bound or free excited electronic states of these van der Waals molecules; bound excited states have been found for XeKr and XeAr. The emission spectrum of diatomic argon in the 100-150 nm region has been found to consist of four band systems all terminating on the ground electronic state; the only discrete band system, that emitted from the lowest excited state, has been analyzed rotationally and characterized spectroscopically as a triplet state for which the long range potential has been estimated. The absorption spectrum of atomic krypton in the 84-124 nm region has been obtained, and excited Rydberg states with principal quantum number as high as 60 have been assigned; the lowest two ionization energies have been accurately determined. High resolution absorption spectra of dipole allowed transition in molecular nitrogen, from the ground state to excited Rydberg and valence states have been rotationally analyzed. Some large anomalies in frequency spacings and relative intensities have been interpreted in terms of strong homogeneous perturbations rather than predissociations. (Author).