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Yang X, Zhou J, Jones B, et al. Vacuum ultraviolet excitation spectroscopy of the autoionizing Rydberg states of atomic sulfur in the 73 350-84 950 cm(-1) frequency range. J Chem Phys. 2008;128(8):084303doi: 10.1063/1.2829403.
Yang, X., Zhou, J., Jones, B., Ng, C. Y., & Jackson, W. M. (2008). Vacuum ultraviolet excitation spectroscopy of the autoionizing Rydberg states of atomic sulfur in the 73 350-84 950 cm(-1) frequency range. The Journal of chemical physics, 128(8), 084303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2829403
Yang, Xueliang, et al. "Vacuum ultraviolet excitation spectroscopy of the autoionizing Rydberg states of atomic sulfur in the 73 350-84 950 cm(-1) frequency range." The Journal of chemical physics vol. 128,8 (2008): 084303. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2829403
Yang X, Zhou J, Jones B, Ng CY, Jackson WM. Vacuum ultraviolet excitation spectroscopy of the autoionizing Rydberg states of atomic sulfur in the 73 350-84 950 cm(-1) frequency range. J Chem Phys. 2008 Feb 28;128(8):084303. doi: 10.1063/1.2829403. PMID: 18315042.
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J Chem Phys. 2008 Feb 28;128(8):084303. doi: 10.1063/1.2829403.

Vacuum ultraviolet excitation spectroscopy of the autoionizing Rydberg states of atomic sulfur in the 73 350-84 950 cm(-1) frequency range.

The Journal of chemical physics

Xueliang Yang, Jingang Zhou, Brant Jones, C Y Ng, William M Jackson

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California, 95616, USA.

PMID: 18315042 DOI: 10.1063/1.2829403

Abstract

The photoionization efficiency (PIE) spectra of metastable sulfur (S) atoms in the 1 D and 1 S states have been recorded in the 73 350-84 950 cm(-1) frequency range by using a velocity-mapped ion imaging apparatus that uses a tunable vacuum ultraviolet laser as the ionization source. The S(1 D) and S(1 S) atoms are produced by the 193 nm photodissociation of CS2. The observed PIE spectra of S(1 D) and S(1 S) shows 35 autoionizing resonances with little or no contribution from direct photoionization into the S+(4S 3/2)+e(-) ionization continuum. Velocity-mapped ion images of the S+ at the individual autoionizing Rydberg resonances are used to distinguish whether the lower state of the resonance originates from the 1 D, 1 S, or 3P states. The analysis and assignment of the Rydberg peaks revealed 22 new Rydberg states that were not previously known. The autoionization lifetimes tau of the Rydberg states are derived from the linewidths by fitting the lines with the Fano formula. Deviations from the scaling law of tau(n*) proportional to, n*3, where n* is the effective quantum number of the Rydberg state, are observed. This observation is ascribed to perturbations by nearby triplet Rydberg states, which shorten the autoionization lifetimes of the singlet Rydberg levels.

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