title: A new set of potential energy surfaces for HCO: Influence of Renner-Teller coupling on the bound and resonance vibrational states.
abstract: It is commonly understood that the Renner-Teller effect can strongly influence the spectroscopy of molecules through coupling of electronic states. Here we investigate the vibrational bound states and low-lying resonances of the formyl radical treating the Renner-Teller coupled X̃(2)A(') and Ã(2)A(″) states using the MultiConfiguration Time Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) method. The calculations were performed using the improved relaxation method for the bound states and a recently published extension to compute resonances. A new set of accurate global potential energy surfaces were computed at the explicitly correlated multireference configuration interaction (MRCI-F12) level and yielded remarkably close agreement with experiment in this application and thus enable future studies including photodissociation and collisional dynamics. The results show the necessity of including the large contribution from a Davidson correction in the electronic structure calculations in order to appreciate the relatively small effect of the Renner-Teller coupling on the states considered here.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA.
authors.forename: Steve Alexandre
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ndengué
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dawes
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guo