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Radiative and radiationless vibronic deactivation rates in selectively excited CO+

J. Chem. Phys. 69, 3597 (1978); doi:10.1063/1.437066

Issue Date: 15 October 1978

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V. E. Bondybey and Terry A. Miller
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
A tunable dye laser has been used to selectively excite particular (v=0–3) vibrational levels of A 2Pi CO+. The CO+ is produced in a He bath by Penning ionization of CO by He metastables. By studying the time resolved emission of CO+ from selected vibrational levels as a function of He pressure, values have been obtained for the radiative decay rates and the velocity averaged cross-sections for CO+ vibrational relaxation upon He collision. The cross sections are all rather large (>~0.1 Å2) and increase considerably with increasing v. Time resolved spectra of the vibrationally relaxed emission require the postulation of a three-level system to fit their form. It is proposed that both of these effects are consistent with a vibrational relaxation mechanism wherein the A 2Pi CO+ vibrational levels relax via intermediate, highly excited, vibrational levels of the ground X 2Sigma state of CO+. The Journal of Chemical Physics is copyrighted by The American Institute of Physics.
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  • 82.20.Pm
    Physical chemistry Chemical kinetics Measurements of rate constants, reaction cross sections, and activation energies
  • YEAR: 1978

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