State-to-State Molecular-Beam Scattering of Vibrationally Excited NO from Cleaved LiF(100) Surfaces

Abstract

Survival of vibrational excitation has been observed for the scattering of NO prepared by a laser in a single well-defined quantum state, No ($v=1\mathrm{}$, $J=\frac{3}{2}$, $\Omega =\frac{1}{2}$), from a cleaved LiF(100) surface. State-selective angular, velocity, rotational, and electronic distributions of these vibrationally elastically scattered molecules have also been obtained for the first time.