THE TELLURIUM DIMER AND ITS ANION

A new atomic natural orbital type basis set, which includes high angul ar momentum functions up to l = 6, has been constructed for tellurium. Using this set in combination with relativistically corrected multi-r eference configuration interaction and coupled cluster wavefunctions t he potential curves of the ground and spectroscopically most important excited states of the neutral and anionic tellurium dimer have been d etermined. Predictions for spectroscopic constants and energetic detai ls such as electron affinity, excitation energies and dissociation ene rgies, for which in some cases only very limited experimental informat ion exists, are reported.