Photophysics and Photochemistry in the Vacuum Ultraviolet

This volume contains the texts of the Invited Lectures pre sented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute PHOTOPHYSICS AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY IN THE VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET, which was held at the Interlaken Lodge in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin USA, August 15-28, 1982. This ASI was the third in a series of NATO Institutes de voted to a study of the physical and chemical transformations undergone by atoms and molecules after absorption of high-energy (VUV < 6 eV) radiation. [The previous Institutes were CHEMICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY IN THE VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET (Val Morin, Canada, 1973) and HIGH-ENERGY CHEMICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY (Breukelen, The Netherlands, 1976). ] The purpose of this ASI was to provide a forum for the ex change of attitudes and viewpoints between physicists and chem ists working in the VUV area. This area represents one of the most fertile regions for chemistry/physics interfacing, yet the chemists remain largely unaware of the fact that the physicists have implicitly solved many of the chemists' problems (and vice versa); and the physicists remain largely unaware of the nature of the chemists' problems (and vice versa). Consequently, a major aim of the Institute was to construct a proper Chemistry/ Physics Interface, to familiarize each group with the techniques, both experimental and theoretical, of the other group, and to bring the major successes and failures of each group, within the VUV area, to light. The above stipUlations concerning the Institute also serve as desiderata for the present volume.

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This volume contains the texts of the Invited Lectures pre­ sented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute PHOTOPHYSICS AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY IN THE VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET, which was held at the Interlaken Lodge in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin USA, August 15-28, 1982. This ASI was the third in a series of NATO Institutes de­ voted to a study of the physical and chemical transformations undergone by atoms and molecules after absorption of high-energy (VUV < 6 eV) radiation. [The previous Institutes were CHEMICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY IN THE VACUUM ULTRAVIOLET (Val Morin, Canada, 1973) and HIGH-ENERGY CHEMICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND PHOTOCHEMISTRY (Breukelen, The Netherlands, 1976). ] The purpose of this ASI was to provide a forum for the ex­ change of attitudes and viewpoints between physicists and chem­ ists working in the VUV area. This area represents one of the most fertile regions for chemistry/physics interfacing, yet the chemists remain largely unaware of the fact that the physicists have implicitly solved many of the chemists' problems (and vice versa); and the physicists remain largely unaware of the nature of the chemists' problems (and vice versa). Consequently, a major aim of the Institute was to construct a proper Chemistry/ Physics Interface, to familiarize each group with the techniques, both experimental and theoretical, of the other group, and to bring the major successes and failures of each group, within the VUV area, to light. The above stipUlations concerning the Institute also serve as desiderata for the present volume.

Inhalt
Photophysics of Highly-Excited States.- Methods for Studying Higher Excited States in Molecules and Molecular Crystals by Means of Synchrotron Radiation.- Nonlinear Optics and Laser Spectroscopy in the Vacuum Ultraviolet.- Multiphoton Ionization and Third-Harmonic Generation in Atoms and Molecules.- Electron-Impact Spectroscopy of Molecules.- Elements of Quantum Defect Theory. I. Introduction and Formalism.- Elements of Quantum Defect Theory. II. A Unified Theory of Rydberg and Autoionizing States.- Elements of Quantum Defect Theory. III. Diatomic Molecules.- Negative-Ion States.- Superexcited nd Ionic State Relaxation Processes in Vacuum Ultraviolet Excited Polyatomic Molecules.- Photoionization Dynamics of Small Molecules.- Photodissociation Dynamics of Gas-Phase Small Molecules.- VUV Spectroscopy of Rare-Gas Van Der Waals Dimers.- Excitons and Energy Transfer in Insulators.- Regular and Irregular Motion in Classical and Quantum Systems.- New Trends in Atomic Diamagnetism.- Evidence for Motional Electric Field Effects in the Absorption Spectrum of Lithium Vapor in a Magnetic Field.- On the Spectrum Of V(?) $$V\left( \rho \right) = - \frac{{qt}}{\rho } + \frac{{rt}}{{{\rho ^2}}} + stp + t{p^2}.$$. Physical Implications for a Variety of Problems.- Perturbation Spectroscopy.- Circular Dichroism and Magnetic Circular Dichroism Studies in the Vacuum Ultraviolet.- Electric Field Studies in the Vacuum Ultraviolet.- Valence-Shell and Rydberg Transitions in Large Molecules.- Multiphoton Spectroscopy and Photochemistry.- Excess Energy Dependence of Vibrational Relaxation and Photophysical Branching Ratios in Isolated Aromatic Molecules: Relevance to Vacuum Ultraviolet Photochemistry.- Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Structure and Spectra of NH3+.- TheoreticalCorrelations of Organic Photochemical Reactions in the VUV.- Photochemistry of Saturated Alcohols and Open-Chain Ethers at 185 nm in the Liquid Phase.- Photolysis of Cyclic Ethers and Acetals at 185 nm in the Liquid Phase.- List of Participants.