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A Stimulated Emission Study Of The Ground State Bending Levels Of Bh2 Through The Barrier To Linearity And Ab Initio Calculations Of Near-Spectroscopic Accuracy, Bing Jin, Dennis J. Clouthier, Riccardo Tarroni Sep 2017

A Stimulated Emission Study Of The Ground State Bending Levels Of Bh2 Through The Barrier To Linearity And Ab Initio Calculations Of Near-Spectroscopic Accuracy, Bing Jin, Dennis J. Clouthier, Riccardo Tarroni

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The ground state bending levels of 11BH2 have been studied experimentally using a combination of low-resolution emission spectroscopy and high-resolution stimulated emission pumping (SEP) measurements. The data encompass the energy range below, through, and above the calculated position of the barrier to linearity. For the bending levels (0,3,0) and above, the data show substantial K-reordering, with the K"a = 1 levels falling well below those with K"a = 0. A comparison of the high-resolution rotationally resolved SEP data to our own very high level ab initio calculations of the rovibronic energy levels shows agreement approaching …