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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
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Talk Outline Photodissociation Experiments
Finding and Identifying an Anomaly Developing BASIS
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Current Research Photodissociation of atmospheric molecules, characterizing quantum state distribution of products Crossbeam reaction dynamics Molecules studied - ozone, chlorine dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, chlorine
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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
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mm-wave – Rotational Spectroscopy
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Vacuum Chamber
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J=4 J=3 J=1 J=5 J=0 J=2 J=0 J=6 J=6
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Parent Molecule
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Photodissociation of Parent Molecule
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Current Photodissociation Study
hn Cl Cl O O O O Oxygen Chlorine Dioxide Chlorine Monoxide Parent Molecule Product Molecules
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Probing Product Molecule
Cl O
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UV action spectrum of O35ClO
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UV action spectrum of O35ClO
(16,0,0) (15,0,0) (14,0,0) 1st Anomaly (17,0,0)
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Hole is too deep! 2nd Anomaly
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Parent Signal BASIS Signal
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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
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BASIS Scan - OCS J = 6 J = 25
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J = 25 J = 6
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Rotational Distribution Shift - OCS
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Developing BASIS
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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
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IR Spectroscopy of Vibrational Hot Acetylene - BASIS
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Conclusion New spectroscopy technique for seeing “dark” molecules
May be applied to any energy transfer spectroscopy
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