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Technique for measuring rotational temperature of microwave excited diatomic sulfur
Applied Optics
|March 18, 2010
Abstract:
A technique has been devised to measure the temperature of discharge excited diatomic sulfur. The bandshape of the transition from the upsilon' = 8 level in the B(3)Sigma(-) electronic state of the upsilon" = 0 level in the X(3)Sigma(-) state is due to unresolved rotational structure. The observed bandshape was compared to the results of a computer simulation that used the line strength factors of Tatum and Watson for spin-rotation coupling intermediate between Hund's cases (a) and (b).
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