Rotational and angular distributions of NO products from NO-Rg (Rg = He, Ne, Ar) complex photodissociation.

We present the results of an investigation into the rotational and angular distributions of the NO à state fragment following photodissociation of the NO-He, NO-Ne, and NO-Ar van der Waals complexes excited via the à ← X̃ transition. For each complex, the dissociation is probed for several values of Ea, the available energy above the dissociation threshold. For NO-He, the Ea values probed were 59, 172, and 273 cm(-1); for NO-Ne they were 50 and 166 cm(-1); and for NO-Ar they were 44, 94, 194, and 423 cm(-1).