ODAGIRI TAKESHI, Y. Kumagai, T. Tanabe, M. Nakano, I. H. Suzuki, M. Kitajima, N. Kouchi
Review of Scientific Instruments 81(6) 063108(6pp) 2010年6月18日 査読有り
A novel method of spectroscopy for highly excited states of molecules in the valence excitation<br />
range has been established through the detection of metastable hydrogen atoms in the 2s state<br />
formed by photoexcitation. The detector for the metastable hydrogen atom is composed of a stack<br />
of parallel plate electrodes that creates a localized electric field and triggers the emission of the<br />
Lyman- photon from the atom and a chevron pair of microchannel plates that detects the photon.<br />
For linear molecules, the angle-resolved detection of the metastable hydrogen atom enables us to<br />
measure cross sections in which electronic symmetries of highly excited molecular states are<br />
resolved. Such symmetry-resolved cross section measurements were carried out for doubly excited<br />
states of H2.