Spectroscopy of Cs2, RbCs, and Rb2 in solid 4He.
We present comparative experimental and theoretical studies of the absorption and fluorescence spectra of the alkali-metal dimer molecules Cs(2) and RbCs immersed in a solid helium matrix, thereby extending our recent observations of Rb(2) in solid (4)He. The laser-excited molecular states are mostly quenched by the interaction with the He matrix. The quenching efficiently populates the second lowest excited state of the molecule, i.e., (1)  (3)Π((u)) that is metastable in the homonuclear dimers. Molecular excitation and emission bands are modeled by calculating Franck-Condon factors that give a reasonable agreement with the experimental findings.
Département de Physique, Université de Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. peter.moroshkin@unifr.ch
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