Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Université Paris-Sud, Batiment 505, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France, FR SFB 407, Institut für Quantenoptik, Universit?t Hannover, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany, DE
Abstract:
Due to competition between ionic and covalent dissociation, the excited potential curves of the alkali dimers display long range structures, leading in some cases to secondary wells. We discuss the possibility of populating the well (with a depth of 1614.8 cm-1, located at Re= 30.5a0) that is present in the Na2 potential curve and propose detection schemes. Received: 28 May 1998 / Revised: 5 August 1998 / Accepted: 24 September 1998