Lifetime Measurements of the C3Delta State of TiS and the E3Pi State of TiO.
Lifetime measurements of the C3Delta electronic state of the titanium sulfide molecule and of the E3Pi electronic state of the titanium oxide molecule have been performed using population probing with resonant two-photon ionization in a molecular beam. The lifetimes for the TiS C3Delta1 state were found to be 243 +/- 7 ns, 278 +/- 9 ns, and 286 +/- 15 ns for the v = 0, v = 1, and v = 2 levels, respectively. The lifetime for the TiO E3Pi0 state was found to be 4.9 +/- 0.2 µs for the v = 0 level. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.
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Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 11385, Sweden