Excited State Kinetics of Mercury Halides and Mixtures with N2 and Xe.

Abstract

Experimental kinetic measurements were made for mercury and mercury halide systems that have relevance for mercury halide lasers operating on the B-X transitions. The quenching of Hg(3P2) atoms by halogens, the vibrational relaxation of HgCl(B) and HgBr(B), and the dissociative excitation transfer from N2(A) and Xe(3P2,1) to HgCl2, HgBr2, CH3HgCl, CH3HgBr and CH3HgI were studied. In addition, relaxation processes in the triplet states of N2 were investigated; the very facile coupling between the N2(W) and N2(B) and N2(B) states was discovered and studied at the state-to-state level. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 28, 1983
Accession Number
ADA135432

Entities

People

  • D. W. Setser

Organizations

  • Kansas State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afterglows
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Collisions
  • Computer Simulations
  • Couplings
  • Emission
  • Emission Spectra
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Excitation
  • Halogens
  • Kinetics
  • Molecules
  • Rate Of Formation
  • Spectra
  • Vibrational Relaxation

Readers

  • Military Engineering.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers