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气相冷碰撞中构象弛豫的直接时域观测

Direct Time-domain Observation of Conformational Relaxation in Gas-phase Cold Collisions

Garrett K. Drayna, Christian Hallas, Kenneth Wang, Sérgio R. Domingos, Sandra Eibenberger, John M. Doyle, David Patterson

摘要:

冷却气相中的分子对于精密光谱学、冷分子物理学和物理化学非常重要。构象弛豫截面的测量对分子内的势能面和能量流有重要的意义。然而,气相构象冷却以前没有直接观察到。在这项工作中,我们直接观察1,2-丙二醇在冷(6 K)碰撞与氦原子使用微波光谱和缓冲气体冷却的构象动力学。精确的知识和缓冲气体中的碰撞环境的控制,使我们能够测量构象弛豫的绝对碰撞截面。研究了1,2-丙二醇的几种构象,发现它们具有He从$σ=4.7(3.0)\times10^{-18}\:\mathrm{cm}^{2}$到$σ>5\times10^{-16}\:\mathrm{cm}^{2}$的弛豫截面。我们的方法适用于广泛的一类分子,并可用于提供以前未研究的分子的势能面的信息。

英文摘要:

Cooling molecules in the gas phase is important for precision spectroscopy, cold molecule physics, and physical chemistry. Measurements of conformational relaxation cross sections shed important light on potential energy surfaces and energy flow within a molecule. However, gas-phase conformational cooling has not been previously observed directly. In this work, we directly observe conformational dynamics of 1,2-propanediol in cold (6K) collisions with atomic helium using microwave spectroscopy and buffer-gas cooling. Precise knowledge and control of the collisional environment in the buffer-gas allows us to measure the absolute collision cross-section for conformational relaxation. Several conformers of 1,2-propanediol are investigated and found to have relaxation cross-sections with He ranging from $σ=4.7(3.0)\times10^{-18}\:\mathrm{cm}^{2}$ to $σ>5\times10^{-16}\:\mathrm{cm}^{2}$. Our method is applicable to a broad class of molecules and could be used to provide information about the potential energy surfaces of previously uninvestigated molecules.

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