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Absolute intensity calibration of emission spectra: application to the forbidden 346 nm nitrogen line for N(2P°) metastable atoms density measurement in flowing afterglow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2008

E. Eslami
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Iran University of Science & Technology, Narmak, Tehran, 16846-13114, Iran
N. Sadeghi*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble & CNRS, 38402 St Martin d'Hères, France
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Abstract

A novel method, based on emission signal from the excitation transfer reaction: Ar*(3P2) + N2(X) $\to $ N2*(C3$\Pi_{u}$) + Ar, is proposed for the intensity calibration of the spectroscopic optical detection system in absolute scale. It is applied for the measurement of N(2P°) metastable atoms density in the Short Lived Afterglow (SLA) of a 440 Pa nitrogen discharge produced by a 433 MHz resonant cavity. This density is deduced from the absolute intensity of the forbidden N(2P°–4S°) line at 346.65 nm, whose transition probability is only 0.005 s−1. The N(2P°) density variation in the SLA resembles those of N2(A3$\Sigma_{u}$) metastable molecules and electrons or the emission intensities of first positive (1+), second positive (2+) and first negative (1) systems of N2. It first decays after the discharge zone up to a minimum and hence increases by almost a factor of thirty to reach a maximum value of 6 × 1017 m−3 at the maximum of the SLA. It is proposed that N(2P°) density results from a local equilibrium between its production: N2(A3$\Sigma _{u}^{+}$) + N(4S) $\to $ N(2P) + N2(X1$\Sigma _{g}^{+}$, v) and loss: N2(X1$\Sigma _{g}^{+}$, v 10)+ N(2P) $\to $ N2 (A3$\Sigma _{u}^{+}$) + N(4S) reactions, which strongly couple the atomic and molecular metastable states and hence recycle N2(A3$\Sigma _{u}$) metastable molecules produced in the SLA. The balance equation of N(2P°) density provides a N2(X1$\Sigma _{g}$; v 10) density of 6.5 × 1020 m−3 at the maximum of the SLA. This corresponds to 1% of the total N2 molecules in vibrationally excited levels v 10.

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