Direct measurement of the size of the helium dimer
The relative transmissions of helium dimer and helium atom beams through a set of nanoscale sieves were measured as a function of hole size in the range from 98–410 nm. From the relative transmission coefficients, the mean internuclear distance of helium dimer was determined to be 〈r〉=62±10 Å. This...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of chemical physics 1996-01, Vol.104 (3), p.1151-1154 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The relative transmissions of helium dimer and helium atom beams through a set of nanoscale sieves were measured as a function of hole size in the range from 98–410 nm. From the relative transmission coefficients, the mean internuclear distance of helium dimer was determined to be 〈r〉=62±10 Å. This enormous bond length—by far the largest known—confirms recent theoretical estimates of the potential energy well depth ε and the extremely small binding energy Eb of helium dimer. The ranges of these parameters corresponding to the experimental uncertainty in 〈r〉 are ε/k=10.88–10.98 K and Eb/k=0.65–1.30 mK, where k is the Boltzmann constant. |
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ISSN: | 0021-9606 1089-7690 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.470771 |