LINER RYDBERG STATES OF WATER
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2000
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Ohio State University
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We have studied the spectrum of the water molecule above the ionization limit using resonant excitation through a linear intermediate state. Water vapor in a differentially pumped time-of-flight mass spectrometer was excited to the energy region above the first ionization limit using a stepwise resonant $(1+1^{\prime})$ REMPI process, in which intense VUV light near 118.5 nm pumped selected rotational levels of the $(\tilde{A}^{2} A_{1})3pb^{1}_{2}B_{2}$ linear electronic state, followed by further excitation by a scanning dye laser. We observed transitions to Rydberg states which we have tentatively identified as belonging primarily to linear states converging to the $\tilde{A}^{2} A_{1}$ electronic state of the ion. These electronically autoionizing states perturb the bent Rydberg states which we have studied previously.
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Author Institution: Texas Tech University