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Bogomolov AS, Grüner B, Kochubei SA, et al. Predissociation of high-lying Rydberg states of molecular iodine via ion-pair states. J Chem Phys. 2014;140(12):124311doi: 10.1063/1.4869205.
Bogomolov, A. S., Grüner, B., Kochubei, S. A., Mudrich, M., & Baklanov, A. V. (2014). Predissociation of high-lying Rydberg states of molecular iodine via ion-pair states. The Journal of chemical physics, 140(12), 124311. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4869205
Bogomolov, Alexandr S, et al. "Predissociation of high-lying Rydberg states of molecular iodine via ion-pair states." The Journal of chemical physics vol. 140,12 (2014): 124311. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4869205
Bogomolov AS, Grüner B, Kochubei SA, Mudrich M, Baklanov AV. Predissociation of high-lying Rydberg states of molecular iodine via ion-pair states. J Chem Phys. 2014 Mar 28;140(12):124311. doi: 10.1063/1.4869205. PMID: 24697445.
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J Chem Phys. 2014 Mar 28;140(12):124311. doi: 10.1063/1.4869205.

Predissociation of high-lying Rydberg states of molecular iodine via ion-pair states.

The Journal of chemical physics

Alexandr S Bogomolov, Barbara Grüner, Sergei A Kochubei, Marcel Mudrich, Alexey V Baklanov

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Institutskaya Str. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
  2. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
  3. Institute of Semiconductor Physics, ac. Lavrent'yev ave., 13, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.

PMID: 24697445 DOI: 10.1063/1.4869205

Abstract

Velocity map imaging of the photofragments arising from two-photon photoexcitation of molecular iodine in the energy range 73 500-74 500 cm(-1) covering the bands of high-lying gerade Rydberg states [(2)Π1/2]c6d;0g (+) and [(2)Π1/2]c6d;2g has been applied. The ion signal was dominated by the atomic fragment ion I(+). Up to 5 dissociation channels yielding I(+) ions with different kinetic energies were observed when the I2 molecule was excited within discrete peaks of Rydberg states and their satellites in this region. One of these channels gives rise to images of I(+) and I(-) ions with equal kinetic energy indicating predissociation of I2 via ion-pair states. The contribution of this channel was up to about 50% of the total I(+) signal. The four other channels correspond to predissociation via lower lying Rydberg states giving rise to excited iodine atoms providing I(+) ions by subsequent one-photon ionization by the same laser pulse. The ratio of these channels varied from peak to peak in the spectrum but their total ionic signal was always much higher than the signal of (2 + 1) resonance enhanced multi-photon ionization of I2, which was previously considered to be the origin of ionic signal in this spectral range. The first-tier E0g (+) and D(')2g ion-pair states are concluded to be responsible for predissociation of Rydberg states [(2)Π1/2]c6d;0g (+) and [(2)Π1/2]c6d;2g, respectively. Further predissociation of these ion-pair states via lower lying Rydberg states gives rise to excited I(5s(2)5p(4)6s(1)) atoms responsible for major part of ion signal. The isotropic angular distribution of the photofragment recoil directions observed for all channels indicates that the studied Rydberg states are long-lived compared with the rotational period of the I2 molecule.

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