Absolute oscillator strengths for the valence and inner (P 2p,2s) shell photoabsorption, photoionization, and ionic photofragmentation of PF 3

Abstract

Absolute oscillator strengths (cross-sections) for the photoabsorption of phosphorus pentafluoride (PF 5) have been measured for the first time in the valence and phosphorus 2p discrete regions using high-resolution (0.0–0.1 eV fwhm), dipole ( e, e) spectroscopy. Long-range data (10–300 eV) have also been obtained at lower resolution (1 eV fwhm), from which the absolute oscillator strength scale has been determined using the valence-shell Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn sum-rule. The accuracy of the present measurement has been tested using the S(−2) sum rule normalization. Evaluation of the S(−2) sum using the presently reported absolute photoabsorption oscillator strength data gives a dipole polarizabilit for PF 5 in good agreement with the experimental value. The photoionization efficiencies, photoion branching ratios, and absolute partial oscillator strengths for molecular and dissociative photoionization have also been determined for PF 5 by dipole ( e, e+ion) coincidence spectroscopy from the first ionization threshold up to and above the phosphorus 2p edge.