Suzuki T, Kanya R, Yamanouchi K. Photodissociation of [Ar-N
2]
+ induced by near-IR femtosecond laser fields by ion-trap time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
J Chem Phys 2021;
154:174303. [PMID:
34241073 DOI:
10.1063/5.0049560]
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Abstract
Photodissociation of [Ar-N2]+ induced by a near-IR (800 nm) femtosecond laser pulse is investigated using ion-trap time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The intra-complex charge transfer proceeding in the course of the decomposition of the electronically excited Ar+(2P3/2)⋯N2(X1Σg +), prepared by the photoexcitation of the electronic ground Ar(1S0)⋯N2 +(X2Σg +), is probed by the ion yields of Ar+ and N2 +. The yield ratio γ of N2 + with respect to the sum of the yields of Ar+ and N2 + is determined to be γ = 0.62, which is much larger than γ ∼ 0.2 determined before when the photodissociation is induced by a nano-second laser pulse in the shorter wavelength region between 270 and 650 nm. This enhancement of γ at 800 nm and the dependence of γ on the excitation wavelength are interpreted by numerical simulations, in which the adiabatic population transfer from Ar+(2P3/2)⋯N2(X1Σg +) to Ar(1S0)⋯N2 +(X2Σg +) at the avoided crossings is accompanied by the vibrational excitation in the N2 +(X2Σg +) moiety followed by the intra-complex vibrational energy transfer from the N2 +(X2Σg +) moiety to the intra-complex vibrational mode leading to the dissociation.
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