| Laser photodetachment electron spectroscopy (LPES) has been used to study the structure of the terbium anion. The data was analyzed assuming that the terbium anion forms in dysprosium-like states. Using this assumption, the electron affinity of Tb([Xe]4f96s 2 6 Ho15/2 ) equals 1.98 +/- 0.10 eV, and the ground state of the terbium anion is assigned to the Dy-like Tb-([Xe]4f 106s2 5I 8) electronic configuration. At lust two bound excited states of Tb - are also evident in the photoelectron kinetic energy spectra, with binding energies of 0.449 +/- 0.01 and 1.67 +/- 0.07 eV relative to the Tb(6 Ho15/2 ) ground state. The energy scale of each Tb- photoelectron spectrum way calibrated using reference photoelectron peaks from 12 C-, 16O- and 23Na-, which have well known binding energies [1]. Photoelectron angular distribution measurements following the single-photon photodetachment of the lanthanide anions Tb- and Lu - are also presented. The asymmetry parameters were determined from the non-linear least-square fits of the photoelectron yields as a function of the angle between the photon polarization vector and the photoelectron momentum vector of the collected photoelectrons. The measurements indicated the single-photon photodetachment process hnu + Tb -([Xe]4f106s 2 5I8) → Tb([Xe]4 f96s2 6) Ho15/2 + e - has beta values of 1.51 +/- 0.08 and 1.35 +/- 0.08 at wavelengths of 514.5 and 488 nm, respectively. For Lu -, the fine-structure resolved photodetachment process hnu +Lu-([Xe]4f146s 26p5d 1D 2) → Lu([Xe]4f145 d6s2 2D 3/2) + e-, has been measured at wavelength of 532 nm yielding beta = 0.8 +/- 0.1, supporting the assertion that Lu - forms via the attachment of a 6p-electron to the neutral Lu atom [2].; Finally, photodetachment cross sections and the angular distributions of photo-electrons produced by the single-photon detachment of the Fe - and Cu- have also been measured at discrete visible photon wavelengths. From the measured photodetachment cross sections, the radiative attachment cross sections were calculated using the principle of detailed balance. Moreover, the energy independence of the asymmetry parameter for the photodetachment process hnu + Cu-([Ar]3 d104s2 1 S0) → Cu([Ar]3d104 s 2S1/2) + e- is demonstrated and is shown to be in excellent agreement with previous studies of s-subshell photodetachment [3, 4]. In addition, the spectral variation of the asymmetry parameter for the Fe-[Ar]3 d74s2(4 FJ") → Fe[Ar]3d64 s2(5DJ') photodetachment channel of Fe- is shown to be dominated by parity "unfavored" values of the angular momentum transfer using the formalism of Fano and Dill [5]. |
