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Revisiting the electron affinity of selenium
Rui Zhang1, Wenru Jie1, Jiayi Chen1
1Department of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Abstract:
The electron affinity (EA) of atomic selenium, previously established as 16 297.276(9) cm-1 based on the laser photodetachment microscopy (LPM) measurements in 2012, exhibited a significant deviation from other earlier experimental values, yet it remained the accepted reference standard for over a decade. In this letter, we re-examined the EA of Se using the slow-electron velocity-map imaging method and revealed a substantial deviation in the LPM result. Measurements for the different isotopes of Se and the energy-level splitting of the neutral Se atom's 3P2-3P1 further verified the accuracy and robustness of our SEVI method. Based on this experimental evidence, we recommended a revised EA(Se) value of 16 297.78(4) cm-1, which is in excellent agreement with the previous laser photodetachment threshold experimental results.
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