Isotope effects and spectroscopic assignments in the non-dissociative photoionization spectrum of N{sub 2}
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
Photoionization efficiency spectra of {sup 14}N{sub 2}, {sup 15}N{sup 14}N, and {sup 15}N{sub 2} from 15.5 to 18.9 eV were measured using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a resolution of 6 meV, and significant changes in peak energies and intensities upon isotopic substitution were observed. Previously, we reported the isotope shifts and their applications to Titan's atmosphere. Here, we report more extensive experimental details and tabulate the isotope shifts of many transitions in the N{sub 2} spectrum, including those for {sup 15}N{sup 14}N, which have not been previously reported. The isotope shifts are used to address several long-standing ambiguities in spectral peak assignments just above the ionization threshold of N{sub 2}. The feature at 15.677 eV (the so-called second “cathedral” peak) is of particular interest in this respect. The measured isotope shifts for this peak relative to {sup 14}N{sub 2} are 0.015 ± 0.001 eV for {sup 15}N{sub 2} and 0.008 ± 0.001 eV for {sup 15}N{sup 14}N, which match most closely with the isotope shifts predicted for transitions to the (A {sup 2}Π{sub u} v{sup ′} = 2)4sσ{sub g} {sup 1}Π{sub u} state using Herzberg equations for the isotopic differences in harmonic oscillator energy levels plus the first anharmonic correction of 0.0143 eV for {sup 15}N{sub 2} and 0.0071 eV for {sup 15}N{sup 14}N. More generally, the isotope shifts measured for both {sup 15}N{sub 2} and {sup 15}N{sup 14}N relative to {sup 14}N{sub 2} provide new benchmarks for theoretical calculations of interferences between direct and indirect autoionization states which can interact to produce intricate resonant structures in molecular photoionization spectra in regions near ionization thresholds.
- OSTI ID:
- 22254871
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 140, Issue 19; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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