DETERMINATION OF THE LONG-RANGE POTENTIAL AND DISSOCIATION-ENERGY OF THE 1(3)DELTA(G) STATE OF NA-2

The 1(3) Delta(g) state of Na-2 has been studied extensively by both f iltered fluorescence and ionization detection and analyzed by both Dun ham-type expansion and near-dissociation expansion (NDE) models in the analysis. Our observations have covered 99.998% of the potential well depth with the outermost Rydberg-Klein-Rees (RKR) turning point at 28 .02 Angstrom. NDE analysis gives T-e=28.032.468 (+/-0.021) cm(-1), D-e =7162.436 (+/-0.021) cm(-1), and R(e)=3.46381 (+/-0.00028) Angstrom. S ignificant long-range behavior in the near dissociation levels has bee n observed. Fitting of the RKR turning points gives the long-range coe fficients C-5=1.388 (+/-0.031)x10(6) cm(-1) Angstrom(5) and C-6=0.4008 (+/-0.0046)X10(8) cm(-1)Angstrom(6). These newly observed results show reasonable agreement 6 with recent theoretical calculations. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.