High-resolution photoelectron spectra of the gas phase pyrimidine-type nucleobases, thymine, uracil, and cytosine, were collected using synchrotron radiation over the photon energy range 17 ≤ hν ≤ 150 eV. These data provide the highest resolution photoelectron spectra of thymine, uracil, and cytosine published to date. By comparing integrated regions of the energy dependent photoelectron spectra of thymine, the ionization potentials of the first four ionic states of thymine were estimated to be 8.8, 9.8, 10.3, and 10.8 eV. The thymine data also show evidence for low energy shape resonances in three of the outermost valence electronic states. Comparing the uracil spectrum with the thymine spectrum, the four outermost valence electronic states of uracil likely begin at binding energies 9.3, 9.9, 10.5, and 11.0 eV. High-resolution spectra indicate only one tautomeric form of cytosine contributes significantly to the spectrum with the four outermost valence electronic states beginning at binding energies 8.9, 9.9, 10.4, and 10.85 eV.

Absolute single photoionization cross section measurements for Br 3+ ions are reported in the photon energy range 44.79-59.54 eV at a photon energy resolution of 21±3 meV. Measurements were performed at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory using the merged-beams technique. Numerous resonance features in the experimental spectrum are assigned and their energies and quantum defect values are tabulated. The crosssection measurements are also compared with Breit-Pauli R-matrix calculations with suitable agreement over the photon energy range investigated. Analysis of the measured spectrum including Rydberg resonance series identifications produced a new emperical determination of the ionizational potential of Br 3+ of 46.977±0.050 eV, which is 805 meV lower than the most recently published value of 47.782 eV. This disparity between our determination and the earlier published value is similar to an 843 meV shift in the accepted ionization potential published for iso-electronic Se 2+ as part of this same research program.

The interband transitions of holes in tellurium by absorption experiments are investigated in the energy range 100 to 170 meV on variously doped single crystals (lo1* to 5 x 1017 holes/cm3) between 1.6 and 77 "K. Calculations of the absorption spectrum due to the direct inter-valence band transitions are performed, using for the two split valence bands the dispersion relation e ( K ) = -a ki -b k l 5 VJ.2 + 2 a J. to k:. Theoretical