Stark Effect and Hyperfine Structure of Hydrogen Fluoride
Abstract
The nuclear hyperfine structure constants and the electric dipole moment of hydrogen fluoride, H1F19, in the ground-vibration and first excited rotation state have been measured in a molecular beam electric resonance experiment. The hfs constants are: cF=307.6+/-1.5 kc/sec, cp=-70.6+/-1.3 kc/sec, 25gpgFμnm2h<r3>=57.6+/-0.44 kc/sec. The apparatus was calibrated by observing Stark transitions in the ground-vibration and first excited rotation state of carbonyl sulfide, O16C12S32, which gave μHFμOCS=2.554+/-0.0037, or μHF=1.8195+/-0.0026 D, by using μOCS=0.7124+/-0.0002 D. An absolute measurement of the OCS electric dipole moment gave μOCS=0.7120+/-0.003 D. A digitally computed solution of the Stark effect with magnetic hyperfine structure was necessary to interpret the data. The theory and experiment are in good agreement over the range of electric-field strengths used in the experiment. The hfs constants are in excellent agreement with the averaged absolute values of these constants as measured in a molecular beam magnetic resonance experiment. The agreement has significance because of discrepancies between the results from the two resonance methods, for some other molecules, in previous experiments.
- Publication:
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Physical Review
- Pub Date:
- July 1963
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRev.131.659
- Bibcode:
- 1963PhRv..131..659W