A vacuum-ultraviolet laser pulsed field ionization-photoelectron study of sulfur monoxide (SO) and its cation (SO+)
Abstract
Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser pulsed field ionization-photoelectron (PFI-PE) spectroscopy has been applied to the study of the sulfur monoxide radical (SO) prepared by using a supersonically cooled radical beam source based on the 193 nm excimer laser photodissociation of SO2. The vibronic VUV-PFI-PE bands for the photoionization transitions SO+(X2Π1/2; v+ = 0) ← SO(X3Σ−; v = 0); and SO+(2Π3/2; v+ = 0) ← SO(X3Σ−; v = 0) have been recorded. On the basis of the semiempirical simulation of rotational branch contours observed in these PFI-PE bands, we have obtained highly precise ionization energies (IEs) of 83 034.2 ± 1.7 cm−1 (10.2949 ± 0.0002 eV) and 83 400.4 ± 1.7 cm−1 (10.3403 ± 0.0002 eV) for the formation of SO+(X2Π1/2; v+ = 0) and SO+(2Π3/2; v+ = 0), respectively. The present VUV-PFI-PE measurement has enabled the direct determination of the spin-orbit coupling constant (A0) for SO+(X2Π1/2,3/2) to be 365.36 ± 0.12 cm−1. We have also performed high-level ab initio quantum chemical calculations at the coupled-cluster level up to full quadruple excitations and complete basis set (CBS) extrapolation. The zero-point vibrational energy correction, the core-valence electronic correction, the spin-orbit coupling, and the high-level correction are included in the calculation. The IE[SO+(X2Π1/2,3/2)] and A0 predictions thus obtained are found to be in remarkable agreement with the experimental determinations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Apr 08, 2011
- Source ID
- 10.1063/1.3575227
Entities
People
- C. Y. Ng
- Chow-shing Lam
- Hailing Wang
- Kai-chung Lau
- Yuntao Xu
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- City University of Hong Kong
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
- United States Department of Energy
- University of California