Study of Pair and many-body interactions in rare-gas halide atom clusters using negative ion zero electron kinetic energy (ZEKE) and threshold photodetachment spectroscopy

Thesis/Dissertation · Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/760297· OSTI ID:760297

Yourshaw, Ivan ^[1]

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1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

The diatomic halogen atom-rare gas diatomic complexes KrBr^-, XeBr^-, and KrCl^- are studied in this work by zero electron kinetic energy (ZEKE) spectroscopy in order to characterize the weak intermolecular diatomic potentials of these species. Also, the ZEKE and threshold photodetachment spectra of the polyatomic clusters Ar_nBr^- (n = 2-9) and Ar_nI^- (n = 2-19) are studied to obtain information about the non-additive effects on the interactions among the atoms. This work is part of an ongoing effort to characterize the pair and many-body potentials of the complete series of rare gas halide clusters. In these studies we obtain information about both the anionic and neutral clusters.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 760297
• Report Number(s): LBNL-42856; R&D Project: 400801; TRN: US0100256
• Resource Relation: Other Information: TH: Thesis (Ph.D.); Submitted to University of California, Berkeley, CA (US) Department of Chemistry; PBD: 9 Jul 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ATOMS
RARE GAS COMPOUNDS
HALIDES
KINETIC ENERGY
SPECTROSCOPY
PAIRING INTERACTIONS
MANY-BODY PROBLEM