Optogalvanic spectroscopy of the C"5Pi ui-A' 5Sigma+g electronic system of N2.

J Chem Phys

Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada.

Published: November 2006

We have recorded spectra involving the 3-1, 4-2, 2-0, and 2-2 bands of the C" 5Pi(ui)-A' (5)Sigma+(g) electronic system of N(2) using optogalvanic detection in a discharge through a supersonic jet expansion of argon mixed with a trace of nitrogen gas. The spectra have an effective rotational temperature of about 45 K. They involve all five spin-orbit components of the C" 5Pi(ui) state, which has allowed for precise determination of the spin-orbit coupling in this state. Analysis of the C" 5Pi(ui) state Lambda-doubling shows that it is caused primarily by a first-order spin-spin effect rather than by interaction with Sigma(u) (+/-) states. Our results allow us to assign lines in the 4-2 and 2-0 bands observed in a fluorescence depletion experiment conducted over ten years ago [Ch. Ottinger and A. F. Vilesov, J. Chem. Phys. 103, 9929 (1995)], and to comment on the suggestion that perturbations to the C (3)Pi(u) v=1 level of N(2) arise from interactions with the C" 5Pi(ui) state.

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