title: The line shape problem in the near-infrared spectrum of self-colliding CO2 molecules: experimental investigation and test of semiclassical models.
abstract: An intensity-stabilized diode laser absorption spectrometer was developed and used to perform a highly accurate study of the line shape of CO(2) absorption lines, in the spectral region around 5000 cm(-1), belonging to the nu(1) + 2nu(2)(0) + nu(3) combination band, at a temperature of 296.00 K. Standard and complex semiclassical models, including Dicke narrowing and speed-dependent broadening effects, were applied, tested, and compared in the pressure range between 0.7 and 4 kPa, in order to single out the model best reproducing the absorption profile and, hence, the physical situation of self-colliding CO(2) molecules. Line intensity factors and self-broadening coefficients were determined. The 1-sigma overall accuracy of our determinations is at a level of 0.1%, which is, to our knowledge, the highest ever reached.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università di Napoli, and CNISM-Unità Napoli 2, Via Vivaldi 43, I-81100 Caserta, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Casa
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wehr
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castrillo
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fasci
authors.forename: Livio
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gianfrani