- Title
- Orientation of doubly excited states in N₂
- Creator
- Furst, John E.; Gay, T. J.; Machacek, Joshua; Kilkoyne, David; McLaughlin, Kenneth W.
- Relation
- Physical Review A Vol. 86, Issue 4, p. 1-5
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.041401
- Publisher
- American Physical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- We have measured the total fluorescent intensity and circular polarization of light emitted in 3p⁴P⁰ → 3s⁴P transitions of excited neutral nitrogen atoms created by the photofragmentation of the N₂ molecule with circularly polarized light having energies between 21 and 26 eV. The intensity measurements show the effect of predissociation of the N₂ Rydberg series R(C)¹Σu⁺states by non-Rydberg doubly excited resonances (NRDERs), while nonzero values of circular polarization allow us to unambiguously identify the presence of a directly excited NRDER with ¹Πu symmetry in this energy range.
- Subject
- light; Rydberg series; diatomic molecules; superexcited states; doubly excited states
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1307969
- Identifier
- uon:21577
- Identifier
- ISSN:1050-2947
- Language
- eng
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