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TVT, 2017 Volume 55, Issue 2, Pages 169–178 (Mi tvt8741)

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Plasma Investigations

Spectra, line intensities of the $C^1\Sigma_g^+ \rightarrow A^1\Sigma_u^+$ and the $c^3\Sigma_g^+ \rightarrow\,a^3\Sigma_u^+$ transitions in liquid normal $\rm He$, and rotational level populations of the $C^1\Sigma_u^+$ and the $c^3\Sigma_u^+$ terms

V. M. Atrazheva, V. A. Shakhatovb, R. E. Boltnevac, N. Bonifacid, F. Aitkend, J. Elorantae

a Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b A. V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
c Institute of Energy Problems for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka Branch)
d Laboratoire G2Elab CNRS \& Grenoble University, Grenoble, France
e Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Northridge, USA

Abstract: We observed the rotational spectral lines of the excimer within the range of $910$$930$ nm in the corona discharge in normal liquid $\rm He$ at the temperature of $4.2$ K and the pressure of $1$ atm. The spectral range is filled with the rotational lines of the $C^1\Sigma_g^+ \rightarrow A^1\Sigma_u^+$ singlet and the $c^3\Sigma_g^+ \rightarrow a^3\Sigma_u^+$ triplet transitions. These transitions end at the rotational levels of the lowest metastable terms, $A^1\Sigma_u^+$ è $a^3\Sigma_u^+$ and of the excimer. Then, the population of the rotational levels with the $K'$ number of the upper $C^1\Sigma_u^+$ and $c^3\Sigma_u^+$ terms (the quantity of the molecules with the rotational moment of $K'$ in the excited molecule ensemble in the discharge) is proportional to the intensity of the rotational lines marked $K'$ of the $C^1\Sigma_g^+ \rightarrow A^1\Sigma_u^+$ singlet and the $c^3\Sigma_g^+ \rightarrow a^3\Sigma_u^+$ triplet. The populations might be calculated according to the experimental intensities of the rotational spectral lines. The emitting corona plasma in the liquid $\rm He$ is nonequilibrium and the rotational level populations do not correspond to the Boltzmann distribution. The efficient rotational temperature exceeds the liquid $\rm He$ temperature, $4.2$ K.

UDC: 535.243,538.915

Received: 07.04.2015
Accepted: 16.06.2015

DOI: 10.7868/S0040364417010021


 English version:
High Temperature, 2017, 55:2, 165–173

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