One- and two-photon detachment of the negative chlorine ion
- 14 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 20 (23), L777-L784
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/20/23/002
Abstract
The authors report the first observation of tunable non-resonant two-photon photodetachment of an atomic negative ion and compare the two-photon detachment cross section of Cl- to the single-photon detachment one. In each case, Wigner law behaviour is observed, with s-wave detachment for the single-photon process and p-wave detachment for the two-photon process. The measured electron affinity of chlorine is 29 138.3 (5) cm-1, improving the precision of that number by more than an order of magnitude over previous measurements. The order of non-linearity of the two-photon detachment process appears to be less than two. Possible explanations for this anomaly are discussed.Keywords
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