Dissociation energies of molecular hydrogen and the hydrogen molecular ion.
We have obtained improved values for the dissociation energies of molecular hydrogen and its ion by using a high-resolution pulse-amplified laser to probe the second dissociation limit. The onset of the vibrational continuum is observed by state-selective detection of the atomic products of dissociation, and several auxiliary measurements link the results to the ground state. The dissociation energies are accurate to 0.010-0.026 cm(-1), improving previous measurements by a factor of 3-7. Agreement with ab initio calculations is good for H2, D2, and their ions, but not for HD and HD+.
Zhang
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Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA.
Cheng
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Kim
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Stanojevic
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Eyler
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