Resonances in the predissociation of the A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub {Omega}} state of MgBr
- Department of Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 (United States)
- Laboratoire de Photophysique Moleculaire du CNRS, Batiment 213, Universite Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex (France)
Electronic structure methods and nonperturbative resonance theory are applied to study the radiative and radiationless decay mechanisms of the MgBr (A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub {Omega}}) vibrational levels. The X{sup 2}{Sigma}{sup +} and 1,2{sup 2}{Pi}{sub {Omega}} adiabatic electronic states are characterized using {ital ab initio} state-averaged multiconfigurational self-consistent field/second order configuration interaction wave functions. Interstate derivative couplings between the {sup 2}{Pi} states have been calculated and used to construct a rigorous diabatic basis. The nonrelativistic potential energy curves are modified in the first order of degenerate perturbation theory to take account of the spin{endash}orbit interactions treated within Breit{endash}Pauli approximation. All vibrational levels in the A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub {Omega}} manifold are resonances predissociated by the repulsive 2{sup 2}{Pi} state. A recently developed computational approach [S. Han and D. R. Yarkony, Mol. Phys. {bold 88}, 53 (1996)] based on a Feshbach formalism is employed to determine energies, linewidths, and radiative and radiationless decay rates in a coupled diabatic states basis within a Hund`s case (a) approximation. Large nonadiabatic interactions cause significant energy shifts in the resonances levels. It is shown that a pronounced {Omega}-dependence in the radiationless decay rates results from the large fine structure splitting in the 2{sup 2}{Pi}{sub {Omega}} diabatic state which corresponds to Mg({sup 1}S)Br({sup 2}P). Comparisons with absorption and fluorescence spectra reveal important insights into A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub {Omega}} state decay. The spectroscopic constants of the A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub {Omega}}, {Omega}=3/2 and 1/2 states and the A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub 3/2} state predissociation are well described in a Hund`s case (a) approximation. However it is found that the A{sup 2}{Pi}{sub 1/2} state predissociation is significantly underestimated in this limit. (Abstract Truncated)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER14189
- OSTI ID:
- 504554
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 106, Issue 10; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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