Study of Energy Levels and Decay Mechanisms for Singlet Rydberg States of Molecular Nitrogen

摘要

This report summarizes a series of investigations of the singlet Rydberg States of molecular nitrogen. The objective of the research was to use laser excitation out of a metastable singlet state in N2 to study the energy levels and decay mechanisms for the high lying singlet Rydberg and valence states. The first section summarizes the current knowledge of these states. The second section describes the initial attempts to produce a beam of molecules in the a'(0)1 epsilon +g state and use laser excitation to gain access to higher lying singlet states.