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Coherent time resolved IR-UV double resonance spectroscopy with REMPI and/or LIF detection has been used to measure the nuclear hyperfine structure of a diatomic and a polyatomic molecule. The pump-probe technique was applied and the experimental set up was optimized to achieve highest spectral resolution. Following excitation of the HCl fundamental vibrational transition by a nanosecond IR laser pulse, the nuclear quadrupole coupling constants were determined to be eQq = −69.51(22) MHz for H35Cl and eQq = −54.40(16) MHz for H37Cl in the J = 1 and J = 2 states of the υ = 1 level. Nuclear (Cl) spin-rotation interaction was shown to be active with the corresponding coupling constant being C I = 0.068(10) MHz for H35Cl and C I = 0.049(8) MHz for H37Cl. For pyrimidine a C-H stretch vibration ν 13 was excited and the quadrupole tensor elements for the rovibronic states J K a ,K c = 110 and 101 of the υ 13 = 1 level were found to be χ aa = −3.095(10) MHz, χ bb = 0.227(10) MHz and χ cc = 3.322(10) MHz. In this case the residual frequency error was reduced to 8 kHz. The results of these jet experiments independently confirm those from millimeter wave and microwave measurements on static gas samples.
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Lammer, H., Carter, R.T. & Huber, J.R. Nuclear quadrupole hyperfine quantum beats in HCl and pyrimidine measured by the pump-probe method using REMPI/LIF detection. Eur. Phys. J. D 8, 385–393 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10053-000-8810-4
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- 42.50.Md Optical transient phenomena: quantum beats, photon echo, free-induction decay, dephasings and revivals, optical nutation, and self-induced transparency
- 33.15.Pw Fine and hyperfine structure
- 33.40.+f Multiple resonances (including double and higher-order resonance processes, such as double nuclear magnetic resonance, electron double resonance, and microwave optical double resonance)