Photoexcitation and ionization in molecular oxygen: Theoretical studies of electronic transitions in the discrete and continuous spectral intervals
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 72 (1), 713-727
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.438908
Abstract
Theoretical studies of valence‐electron (1πg, 1πu, 3σg) photoexcitation and ionization cross sections in molecular oxygen are reported employing separated‐channel static‐exchange calculations and the Stieltjes–Tchebycheff moment‐theory technique. As in previously reported investigations of photoexcitation and ionization in small molecules following this approach, canonical Hartree–Fock orbitals, large Gaussian basis sets, and many‐electron eigenstates of correct symmetry are used in defining appropriate noncentral static‐exchange potentials and in computations of the appropriate discrete and continuum transition strengths. It is particularly important in molecular oxygen to incorporate the appropriate ionic parentages of the various photoionization multiplet states in order to obtain the correct partial‐channel cross sections. The calculated discrete series associated with 1πg excitation are found to be in good agreement with available experimental assignments and previously reported theoretical studies, and the predicted states associated with 1πu and 3σg excitations are in general accord with assignments for the higher series based on spectral and quantum‐defect analysis. Although the observed photoelectron spectra and photoionization cross sections are relatively complex, the calculated total vertical electronic photoabsorption cross section and the partial‐channel photoionization cross sections for production of X 2πg, a 4πu, A 2πu, 2 2πu, 3 3Πu, b 4Σg−, and B 2Σg− ionic states are found to be in good accord with recent synchrotron radiation, line‐source, electron‐impact, and (e,2e) dipole oscillator‐strength measurements when proper account is taken of the parentages of the various multiplet states. The partial‐channel cross sections exhibit resonancelike structures that can be attributed to contributions from diabatic valencelike virtual states that appear in the appropriate photoionization continua, rather that in the corresponding discrete spectral intervals. These features in the dipole spectrum of molecular oxygen are discussed and are contrasted and compared with the results of previously reported related studies in molecular nitrogen and carbon monoxide.Keywords
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