High-resolution Fourier-transform extreme ultraviolet photoabsorption spectroscopy of 14N15N

The first comprehensive high-resolution photoabsorption spectrum of (NN)-N-14-N-15 has been recorded using the Fourier-transform spectrometer attached to the Desirs beamline at the Soleil synchrotron. Observations are made in the extreme ultraviolet and span 100 000-109 000 cm(-1) (100-91.7 nm). The observed absorption lines have been assigned to 25 bands and reduced to a set of transition energies, f values, and linewidths. This analysis has verified the predictions of a theoretical model of N-2 that simulates its photoabsorption and photodissociation cross section by solution of an isotopomer independent formulation of the coupled-channel Schrodinger equation. The mass dependence of predissociation linewidths and oscillator strengths is clearly evident and many local perturbations of transition energies, strengths, and widths within individual rotational series have been observed. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3672165]