Author/Authors :
Rakitzis، نويسنده , , T.P. and Samartzis، نويسنده , , P.C. and Toomes، نويسنده , , R.L. and Tsigaridas، نويسنده , , L. and Coriou، نويسنده , , M. and Chestakov، نويسنده , , D. and Eppink، نويسنده , , A.T.J.B. and Parker، نويسنده , , D.H. and Kitsopoulos، نويسنده , , T.N.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Slice imaging is used to measure the alignment of Br(2P3/2) and Cl(2P3/2) photofragments from the photodissociation of HBr and HCl, respectively, at 193 nm. In both cases the A1Π1 state is predominantly optically excited, which correlates to mJ=±3/2 for the halogen atom photofragments. However, both the Br and Cl photofragments are measured to populate mostly mJ=±1/2, showing that for both HBr and HCl nonadiabatic transitions transfer more population to the a3Π1 state (which correlates to mJ=±1/2) during dissociation than remains in the A1Π1 state. The interference between these two pathways is also measured.
