TRANSLATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY STUDIES OF THE PHOTODISSOCIATION DYNAMICS OF O-4

An investigation of the photodissociation dynamics of the dimer anion O−4 at 523.6, 349.0, and 261.8 nm is reported. Product translational energy and angular distributions have been obtained using photofragment translational spectroscopy in a fast ion beam. At all wavelengths photodissociation (O−4+hν→O2+O−2) is observed to proceed via a rapid parallel electronic transition, with the photofragment angular distribution strongly peaked along the laser electric vector. The lowest energy photodissociation channel produces O2(a1Δg) and ground state O−2(X2Πg), indicating that O−4 is a doublet anion. The partitioning of energy in the dissociation reveals a complicated wavelength dependence.

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