THE ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT OF THE $A^{2} \Pi$ STATE OF CN AS MEASURED BY LEVEL ANTI-CROSSING SPECTROSCOPY
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1973
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Ohio State University
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The dipole moment of the electronically excited $A^{2} \Pi$ state of the CN radical has been measured as 0.56 $\pm$ 0.03 D by analyzing the electric field dependence of the level anti-crossing spectral linewidth. The theory of the Stark effect indicates that the broadening depends upon two parameters, the $A^{2}\Pi$ dipole moment and the electric dipole transition moment between the $A^{2}\Pi$ and $B^{2}\Sigma^{+}$ states. The spectral linewidth is rather insensitive to the value of the transition moment, and this quantity is not well determined from the experimental data.
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Author Institution: The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago