TIME RESOLVED MILLIMETER-WAVE DOUBLE RESONANCE MEASUREMENTS OF INELASTIC COLLSIONS OF NO-He AT 4.2 K

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1999

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Ohio State University

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We have directly measured A-doublet and hyperfine branching ratios and absolute cross sections for rotationally inelastic collisions of NO-He. We employed a collisional cooling cell at 4.2 K in conjunction with time resolved millimeter-wave/millimeter-wave double resonance techniques. The data were analyzed in the context of tensor opacities, which characterize the electrostatic interaction, and angular momentum recoupling, justified by the ``spectator'' role of the nuclear spin during a collision. Our cross sections agree qualitatively with theoretically predicted propensity rules.

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Author Institution: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA; Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/19445

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Abstracts of OSU International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy 1990-1999