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Published on: February 14, 2014
The angularly resolved O 1s ion-yield spectrum of O2 revisited
1Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.
Abstract:
The high-resolution photoabsorption spectrum of O2 below the O 1sσ-1 ionization threshold has been reanalyzed by using a sophisticated fit approach. For the vibrational substates of the O 1sσu-1(4∑u-)3sσg(3∑u-) Rydberg state Fano lineshapes are observed indicating an interaction with the O 1sσg-1(4∑g-)3σu∗(3∑u-) core-to-valence excited state. In the angularly resolved ion-yield spectrum recorded at 90° relative to the polarization direction of the synchrotron radiation clear evidence for the O 1sσg-1(2∑g-)3σu∗(3∑u-) and the O 1sσu-1(2∑u-)3sσg(3∑u-) state was found. This observation clearly suggests thatΛ, the projection of total orbital angular momentum on the molecular axis, is not well separated in the angularly resolved ion-yield spectrum due to a partial breakdown of the axial-recoil approximation for these transitions.
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