Beam Action Spectroscopy via Inelastic Scattering BASIS Technique Bobby H. Layne and Liam M. Duffy Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27402 Hans A Bechtel, Adam H. Steeves and Robert W. Field Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Talk Outline Photodissociation Experiments Finding and Identifying an Anomaly Developing BASIS
Current Research Photodissociation of atmospheric molecules, characterizing quantum state distribution of products Crossbeam reaction dynamics Molecules studied - ozone, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, chlorine
Experimental Setup InSb Hot Electron Bolometer Vacuum Chamber with Diffusion Pump Below Teflon Window & Lens ULN6 preamp InSb Hot Electron Bolometer mm-Wave Source Module Pulsed Slit Nozzle Wire Grid Polarizer Used as Attenuator Rotation controlled by computer Mm-Wave power monitored by pulse modulating source Tunable UV from doubled OPO
mm-wave – Rotational Spectroscopy
Vacuum Chamber
J=4 J=3 J=1 J=5 J=0 J=2 J=0 J=6 J=6
Parent Molecule
Photodissociation of Parent Molecule
Current Photodissociation Study hn Cl Cl O O O O Oxygen Chlorine Dioxide Chlorine Monoxide Parent Molecule Product Molecules
Probing Product Molecule Cl O
UV action spectrum of O35ClO
UV action spectrum of O35ClO (16,0,0) (15,0,0) (14,0,0) 1st Anomaly (17,0,0)
Hole is too deep! 2nd Anomaly
Parent Signal BASIS Signal
Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar Ar O C S O C S Ar O C S Ar Ar Ar Ar O C S O C S Ar Ar O C S Ar Ar Cl O O Ar Ar O C S Ar Ar O C S O C S O C S Ar Ar Ar O C S Ar O C S Ar Ar Ar O C S
BASIS Scan - OCS J = 6 J = 25
J = 25 J = 6
Rotational Distribution Shift - OCS
Developing BASIS
H-C C-H + OCS g H-C C-H + OCS MIT’s Twist: BASIS used for Infrared Spectroscopy H-C C-H + IR g H-C C-H (vib. cold) (vib. hot) H-C C-H + OCS g H-C C-H + OCS (vib. cold) (vib. hot) (rot. hot) (rot. cold) collision Reporting Molecule
IR Spectroscopy of Vibrational Hot Acetylene - BASIS
Conclusion New spectroscopy technique for seeing “dark” molecules May be applied to any energy transfer spectroscopy