A BOXCARS investigation of vibrational relaxation in highly excited 1, 2-trans-dichloroethene

Abstract

The BOXCARS technique has been used to study the collisional vibrational energy transfer from 1, 2-trans-dichloroethene excited into a quasicontinuum by a pulsed CO2 laser. The temporal evolution behaviour for vibrational energies in different modes was obtained. It has been shown that both the rate and maximum energy transferral to the ν4 mode are slightly larger than rates and energy transferral to the ν1 and ν2 modes and that this specificity declines with increase in excitation energy. The mechanism for this specificity is discussed.