FINAL STATE DISTRIBUTIONS UPON VIBRATIONAL PREDISSOCIATION OF THE HCl DIMER

$^{a}$H. Ni, J. M. Serafin and J. J. Valentini J. Chem. Phys. 104 2259 (1996)Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of North CarolinaPhotofragment angular distributions have been obtained for the vibrational predissociation of the HCl dimer. The initial state was selected by exciting the ""free"" - or ""bounded"" H-Cl stretch with an F-center laser. Assignment of the final state distributions allows for accurate determination of the dissociation energy of the dimer to be 439(2) $cm^{-1}$, in good agreement with the recent study of Ni et al.$^{a}$ The influence of the hyperfine interaction on the angular distributions will be discussed