Using a new bunched-beam technique in the GSI heavy-ion experimental storage ring (ESR), we performed precision laser spectroscopy on relativistic heavy ions in the hitherto inaccessible infrared optical region. We determined the wavelength of the M1 transition between the F 1 ͑t ഠ 50 ms͒ and F 0 hyperfine states of the 1s ground state of hydrogenlike 207 Pb 811 . Comparing the result of 1019.7(2) nm with very recent theoretical predictions concerning QED and nuclear size contributions, a disagreement of 4.5 nm is found. Since the nucleus of 207 Pb 811 is well described by the single-particle shell model, uncertainties in nuclear corrections are expected to be small. [S0031-9007(98)07624-8] PACS numbers: 32.30.Jc, 12.20.Fv, 21.10.Ky The hyperfine splitting (HFS) of the 1s ground state of one-electron, two-body (hydrogenlike) system is the simplest and most basic magnetic interaction in atomic physics. In hydrogen the splitting is measured to thirteen significant figures, considerably more precise than the six-digit precision of the theoretical calculations of this quantity [1]. These calculations solve the Dirac equation and then add corrections for the effects of the finite size of the nuclear charge and magnetization as well as for the QED effects of self-energy and vacuum polarization. While the QED contributions are of the order of 10 26 to 10 25 for a single proton, these corrections are several percent in hydrogenlike ions of large Z in which the electron experiences exceptionally intense electric and magnetic fields. Thus measurements of the spectra of these systems can stringently test theoretical calculations of QED and nuclear effects.Recently the 1s ground state transitions in high-Z, hydrogenlike ions have become accessible to optical spectroscopy at the experimental storage ring (ESR) at GSI-Darmstadt and at the electron beam ion trap Super-EBIT at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Measurements of the ground state hyperfine splittings of 209 Bi 821 at GSI [2] and 165 Ho 661 at LLNL [3] have stimulated a large number of theoretical calculations of the wavelengths of these transitions [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Discrepancies are fond between theory and experiment for both 209 Bi 821 and 165 Ho 661 .The calculations for bismuth yield a value 1 nm ͑5 3 10 23 ͒ larger than the measured value. On the basis of the precisions assigned to the corrections this discrepancy is significant, but corrections for the nuclear effects vary considerably depending upon how much the nuclear core is assumed to be polarized. For holmium, a smaller discrepancy between the calculated and measured values is reported [3], but the theoretical analysis did not take into account nuclear polarization [15] which is expected to contribute significantly.In view of this unsatisfactory situation we measured the 1s ground state hyperfine transition of 207 Pb 811 . We chose this nucleus because it is well described by the single-particle model. The magnetic moment has been measured with high precision in the ato...

Deoxygenation of the lignin model compound resorcinol was investigated using VUV synchrotron radiation: Formation of two reactive ketenes and decarboxylation are the dominating pathways, much different from the other two benzenediol isomers.

We have investigated the photoionization of ammonia borane (AB) and determined adiabatic ionization energy to be 9.26 � 0.03 eV for the X + 2 E ! X 1 A 1 transition. Although the threshold photoelectron spectrum appears at first glance to be similar to the one of the isosteric ethane, the electronic situation differs markedly, due to different orbital energies. In addition, an appearance energy AE 0K -(NH 3 BH 3 , NH 3 BH 2 + ) = 10.00 � 0.03 eV has been determined, corresponding to the loss of a hydrogen atom at the BH 3 -site. From the data, a 0 K bond dissociation energy for the BÀ H bond in the cation of 71.5 � 3 kJ mol À 1 was derived, whereas the one in the neutral compound has been estimated to be 419 � 10 kJ mol À 1 .

The reactionp roducts of the picolyl radicals at high temperature were characterized by mass-selective threshold photoelectron spectroscopy in the gasp hase. Aminomethylpyridines were pyrolyzedt oi nitiallyp roduce picolyl radicals( m/z = 92). At higher temperatures further thermalr eaction products are generated in the pyrolysis reactor.A ll compoundsw ere identified by mass-selected threshold photoelectron spectroscopya nd severalh itherto unexplored reactive molecules were characterized. The mechanism forseveraldissociation pathways wasoutlined in computations.T he spectrum of m/z = 91, resulting from hydrogen loss of picolyl, shows four isomers, two ethynyl pyr-roles with adiabatic ionizatione nergies (IE ad )o f7 .99 eV (2ethynyl-1H-pyrrole)a nd 8.12 eV (3-ethynyl-1H-pyrrole), and two cyclopentadienec arbonitriles with IE'so f9 .14 eV (cyclopenta-1,3-diene-1-carbonitrile)a nd 9.25eV( cyclopenta-1,4diene-1-carbonitrile). As econd consecutive hydrogen loss forms the cyanocyclopentadienyl radicalw ith IE'so f9 .07 eV (T 0 )a nd 9.21 eV (S 1 ). This compound dissociates further to acetylene and the cyanopropynyl radical (IE = 9.35 eV). Furthermore, the cyclopentadienyl radical, penta-1,3-diyne, cyclopentadiene and propargylw ere identified in the spectra. Computationsi ndicate that dissociation of picolyl proceeds initially via ar esonance-stabilized seven-membered ring.

The reaction kinetics of the isomers of the methylallyl radical with molecular oxygen has been studied in a flow tube reactor at the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) beamline of the Swiss Light Source storage ring.