EXPERIMENTS ON COLLISIONAL RELAXATION OF NA-2 MOLECULES IN THE B(3)PI(U) STATE

Authors
KLAVINS J HULSMAN H
Citation
J. Klavins et H. Hulsman, EXPERIMENTS ON COLLISIONAL RELAXATION OF NA-2 MOLECULES IN THE B(3)PI(U) STATE, Chemical physics letters, 253(1-2), 1996, pp. 165-170
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Chemical physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00092614
Volume
253
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
165 - 170
Database
ISI
SICI code
0009-2614(1996)253:1-2<165:EOCRON>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Rotationally inelastic collisions in the b (3) Pi(1u) state of Na-2 ar e observed in a free jet expansion by means of two-step laser excitati on, using a mixed singlet-triplet level as a gateway. The evolution of the occupation of collisionally populated levels and of the primary e xcited level are studied as functions of the downstream distance, yiel ding the effective lifetimes of these levels. Possibilities are discus sed to produce molecules in long-lived levels of the b (IIu)-I-3 state by means of rovibrational relaxation in such a free-jet apparatus.