Spin–orbit state selective formation of rare gas chlorides from three‐body ionic‐recombination reactions of Rg<sup>+</sup>(<sup>2</sup><i>P</i><sub>1/2,3/2</sub>)+Cl<sup>−</sup>+He at thermal energy
作者:Masaharu Tsuji、Makoto Furusawa、Hiroyuki Kouno、Yukio Nishimura
DOI:10.1063/1.460615
日期:1991.3.15
The ArCl(C–A), KrCl(B–X,C–A,D–X), and XeCl(B–X,C–A,D–X) emissions have been observed from ionic-recombination reactions of Rg+ (Rg=Ar, Kr, or Xe) with Cl− in the flowing afterglow. Positive Rg+ ions are formed by He(23S)/Rg Penning ionization, while negative Cl− ions are produced through thermal electron attachment to CCl4. The dependence of RgCl* emission intensities on the buffer He gas pressure indicates that the excimer emissions arise from three-body reactions of Rg++Cl− +He. The spin–orbit state selectivity in the KrCl* and XeCl* formation is studied by isolating one of the spin–orbit levels of Rg+,2P1/2 or 2P3/2 . Although the Kr+(2P1/2) reaction provides the KrCl(B–X,C–A,D–X) emissions with B:C:D distribution of 0.19±0.02:0.12±0.01:0.69±0.04, only XeCl(D–X) emission is observed from the Xe+(2P1/2) reaction. The Kr+(2P3/2) and Xe+(2P3/2) reactions give the RgCl(B–X,C–A) emissions with B:C branching ratios of 0.60±0.06:0.40±0.04 for KrCl* and 0.62±0.06:0.38±0.04 for XeCl*. The high propensities for the D formation from the Rg+(2P1/2) reactions and for the B and C formation from the Rg+(2P3/2) reactions suggest that Rg+(2P1/2)+Cl− and Rg+(2P3/2)+Cl− characters are conserved well for the formation of RgCl* in the three-body ionic-recombination reactions. The relative formation rate of RgCl(D) from the Rg+(2P1/2) reaction to that of RgCl(B,C) from the Rg+(2P3/2) reaction was estimated to be 0.14±0.02 for KrCl* and 0.033±0.006 for XeCl*. The slower RgCl(D) formation rates are attributed to fast predissociation of [Rg+(2P1/2)Cl−]* intermediates into Rg*+Cl and/or Rg+Cl* than that of [Rg+(2P3/2)Cl−]* ones.