Hyperfine interaction constants of 14NO2 in 14 500–16 800 cm−1 energy region

Abstract

We observed hyperfine-resolved high-resolution fluorescence excitation spectra of k = 0, N = 1 ← 0 transitions in 82 vibronic bands of the ÃB ← X̃A system of NO in the 14 500-16 800 cm region by crossing a jet-cooled molecular beam and a single-mode dye laser beam at right angles. We determined hyperfine interaction constants of the lower and upper states for all the observed vibronic bands based on the analysis of the hyperfine structures of k = 0, N = 1 ← 0 transitions. Most of the determined Fermi contact interaction constants were found to be distributed in 0.0013-0.0038 cm, which are intermediate in magnitude between those in lower and higher energy region reported by other groups. A sharp decreasing of the Fermi contact interaction constant was found in 16 200-16 600 cm, and it may be caused by the interaction with the dark C̃A state. The hyperfine interaction constants are powerful clues to obtain reliable vibronic assignment. We tentatively assigned vibronic bands located at 14 836 cm, 15 586 cm, and 16 322 cm as the transitions to the intrinsic (0,7,0), (0,8,0), and (0,9,0) vibrational levels of the ÃB state, respectively.