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Measurement and Analysis of Atomic Hydrogen and Diatomic Molecular AlO, C2, CN, and TiO Spectra Following Laser-induced Optical Breakdown
Published on: February 14, 2014
Simulation of the time dependent infrared nu2 mode absorptions of (oH2)n:H2O clusters in O2 doped solid hydrogen at
L Abouaf-Marguin1, A-M Vasserot, C Pardanaud
1Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire pour l'Atmosphère et l'Astrophysique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, CNRS UMR7092, Paris F-75005, France. luce.abouaf@upmc.fr
Abstract:
Using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, we have analyzed the time evolution of the nu(2) mode of (oH(2))(n):H(2)O clusters (n = 11 to 1) embedded in solid normal hydrogen at 4.2 K over a period of 150 h using paramagnetic O(2) to speed up the ortho to para nuclear spin conversion process. For concentrations H(2)O/O(2)/H(2) = 1/20/4000, at time t = 0 right after the solid is prepared, all the H(2)O molecules are preferentially clustered by large numbers of oH(2). With time the cluster distribution irreversibly shifts toward smaller cluster sizes and also generates freely rotating H(2)O (n = 0) which is solvated completely by pH(2) molecules. From a spectral decomposition of the nu(2) (oH(2))(n):H(2)O cluster spectra, a phenomenological simulation of the time behavior of the clusters has been developed. The time evolution is modeled using coupled rate equations in a step by step n to n-1 cluster cascade fashion and analyzed over nine successive time periods. It shows that rotating H(2)O grows only at the expense of cluster n = 1 and that the process dramatically slows down as the conversion of orthohydrogen proceeds. At the end of the conversion process, it was found that cluster n = 1 remained with a very slow decrease.
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