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Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures
Published on: October 9, 2012
Precision measurement of the rotational energy-level structure of the three-electron molecule He2
Luca Semeria1, Paul Jansen1, Frédéric Merkt1
1Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
The term values of all rotational levels of the 4He2+ X+ 2Σu+ (ν+=0) ground vibronic state with rotational quantum number N+ ≤ 19 have been determined with an accuracy of 8 × 10-4 cm-1 (∼25 MHz) by multichannel-quantum-defect-theory-assisted Rydberg spectroscopy of metastable He2∗. Comparison of these term values with term values recently calculated ab initio by Tung et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 136, 104309 (2012)] reveals discrepancies that rapidly increase with increasing rotational quantum number and reach values of 0.07 cm-1 (∼2.1 GHz) at N+ = 19.
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