Measurements of pressure-induced shifts in the 1-0 and 2-0 bands of HF and in the 2-0 bands of H 35Cl and H 37Cl

Abstract

Fourier absorption spectra of HCl and HF measured at room temperature and low pressures were found to show evidence of pressure-induced shifts of the spectral lines at gas pressures of only 10 torr. Self-induced shifts were measured for the HF 2-0 band and for the H 35Cl and H 37 2-0 bands. There were also measured in the same spectra shifts in the HF 2-0 band due to HCl and shifts in both HCl bands due to HF, with indications of shift oscillation due to near-resonant dipole-dipole interactions between HCl and HF. Separate measurements were made of pressure-induced shifts in the HF 1-0 and 2-0 bands and in both isotopic HCl bands, using separately argon, neon, nitrogen and carbon dioxide as the perturbing gases.