The millimeter wave spectrum of the CO dimer

The millimeter wave spectrum of the isotopically substituted CO dimer, (¹³C¹⁶O)₂, has been studied for the first time, confirming and extending a recent infrared study. Eighty-seven transitions in the 77-180 GHz region have been assigned and analyzed in terms of a model-independent term value scheme involving 57 rotational levels with J=0-8. The levels can be classified into 7 “stacks” which have symmetry classifications of either A⁻/B⁺ or A⁺/B⁻ and K-values of either 0 or 1. For the normal isotope, symmetry and nuclear spin statistics cause alternate rotational levels to be missing, but for (¹³C¹⁶O)₂ all levels are present with an intensity alternation of 1:3 between A and B symmetries. The four A⁻/B⁺ stacks have not previously been observed, and the lowest of them establishes the tunneling splitting of (¹³C¹⁶O)₂ to be 3.769 cm⁻¹, slightly larger than the (¹²C¹⁶O)₂ value of 3.731 cm⁻¹. A large amount of precise experimental data is now available for the CO dimer, which should lead to greater theoretical insight into its structure and tunneling dynamics.     

The millimeter wave spectrum of phosphorus oxychloride

Millimeter wave rotational spectra of phosphorus oxychloride (OPCl₃) in the ground and excited vibrational states have been recorded and analyzed. The v₅ = 1 and v₆ = 1 state spectra show large splittings due to l resonance and the effect of the 2, -1 term r_t. Coriolis constants have been obtained for the two lowest degenerate states. The spectra of the asymmetric top species OP³⁵Cl₂³⁷Cl have been analyzed and centrifugal distortion constants obtained. These have been used to determine the harmonic force field of the molecule.     

The millimeter wave rotational spectrum of pyruvic acid

The rotational spectrum of pyruvic acid has been investigated for the first time in the millimeter-wave region, at 160-314 GHz, and also in supersonic expansion, at 10-17.4 GHz. The analysis of the broadband spectra recorded in this work was carried out with the newly developed AABS software package for Assignment and Analysis of Broadband Spectra, and precise spectroscopic constants are reported for the ground state, the first excited state of the low-frequency skeletal torsional mode ν₂₄, and the first excited state of the methyl torsional mode ν₂₃. Limited results have also been obtained for several higher excited states. The dataset for the ground state currently exceeds 1500 lines and for both the A and E internal rotor sublevels spans the complete range of values of K_a at the mid values of J for the measured transitions. The results were analysed with three freely available computer programs employing different strategies for dealing with internal rotation and a comparative discussion of their merits is made.     

The millimeter wave rotational spectrum of lactic acid

The results of a comprehensive investigation of the rotational spectrum of lactic acid over the frequency region 171-318 GHz are reported. Some supersonic expansion measurements at 8-16 GHz have also been made. A complete set of octic level constants in the asymmetric rotor Hamiltonian has been determined for the ground vibrational state from a fit to over 1000 measured transition frequencies. Spectroscopic constants have also been determined for the first five excited states of the low frequency, 60 cm⁻¹, torsional vibrational mode, and for four other vibrationally excited states. Vibrational states become rather crowded above 200 cm⁻¹, with seven different states only in the next 100 cm⁻¹, and almost all of the measured states in this energy region show evidence of perturbations. The analysis was carried out with the newly developed AABS software package for Assignment and Analysis of Broadband Spectra.     

The millimeter wave spectrum of tertiary butyl fluoride

Rotational spectra of tertiary butyl fluoride (TBF) in the ground and excited vibrational states have been recorded and analyzed. The excited state spectra show large splittings due to l resonance and the effect of the 2, -1 term r_t. Coriolis constants have been obtained for the three lowest degenerate states. An accidental resonance enabled the determination of the axial rotational constant of TBF.     

Study on the millimeter wave double-strip H-waveguide sensor

In this paper, we present a new kind of millimeter wave sensor which is constituted by double-strip H-wave-guide. This sensor has some major advantages such as big size, simple structure and good measurement performance. It is particularly suitable for measuring humidities of pellet materials at microwave band.     

Study of ozone concentration variations in the upper stratosphere using millimeter wave spectroscopy methods

New results of the study of ozone concentration variations in the upper stratosphere over Moscow in the layer at a height of 40 km, which is most sensitive to anthropogenic impacts, are presented. Changes in the ozone concentration and its relation to other atmospheric parameters in cold periods of 2008–2009 and 2009–2010 are analyzed. It was shown that there exist regions with decreased ozone content in the polar vortex and outside of it in air with higher temperature in the upper stratosphere. These phenomena cause deformations of vertical ozone distribution profiles and an appreciable shift of the maximum of the relative content of ozone to lower stratosphere layers.     

Experimental confirmation of quantum monodromy: the millimeter wave spectrum of cyanogen isothiocyanate NCNCS

We have made energy-momentum maps for the experimental end-over-end rotational energy and the two-dimensional bending vibrational energy, both of which confirm the dominating effects of nontrivial quantum monodromy in cyanogen isothiocyanate. Accidental resonances in the rotational spectra yield accurate intervals between bending states.     

Rigorous description of an energy spectrum of the isopropanol molecule taking into account the internal rotation of methyl tops

By using the group chain methods, a rigorous algebraic model is constructed to describe the energy spectrum of the isopropanol molecule (CH₃)₂CHOH with an allowance for the internal motion of hydroxil and two identical methyl tops. The model is rigorous in the sense that its correctness is limited only by the correctness of a symmetry chosen to describe internal dynamics of the molecule.     

The vibration-internal rotation-overall rotation interactions in the symmetric-top molecules: The microwave spectrum of methyl silane

Laurie's theory on the coupling between internal rotation and a degenerate vibration in a symmetric-top molecule is examined by investigating the microwave spectra of methyl silane and methyl silane-d₃ in the ν₁₂ and ν₆ + ν₁₂ states. Two sets of l-type doublets are observed in the J = 2 ← 1, K = 1 transitions; however, the observed frequencies as well as the Stark effects of the l-type doublets indicate definitely that Laurie's expressions for the l-type doublets are to be revised. It is shown theoretically that Coriolis couplings remove discrepancy between theory and experiment; when A₁ and A₂ denote the rotational constants of CH₃ and SiH₃ about the symmetry axes and ζ₁ and ζ₂ measure the magnitudes of angular momenta induced by the ν₁₂ vibration in the two tops, experimental results require that (−A₁ζ₁ + A₂ζ₂) is 104 950-107 048 MHz and 45 214-47 626 MHz for CH₃SiH₃ and CH₃SiD₃, respectively.     

Detection of weak microwave and millimeter wave transitions in the C-O stretch state of methyl alcohol

In this work microwave and rum-wave techniques have been applied to measure accurate transition frequencies in the first excited C-O stretching state of methyl alcohol. The measured frequencies for the assigned transitions are in excellent agreement with those predicted from infrared (IR) and ground slate microwave and mm-wave combination differences. For the (nτK) = (031) state, transitions corresponding to asymmetry doublets were detected, yielding an accurate asymmetry splitting parameter.     

毫米波在等离子体中的衰减特性研究

为了研究毫米波与等离子体的相互作用,采用时域积分法对毫米波在等离子体中传输时的衰减特性进行了仿真,初步研究了毫米波在等离子体中传输时的衰减值与等离子体密度、碰撞频率及其工作频率之间的关系.通过理论结果和仿真结果的分析比较,验证了仿真可以为理论研究提供数据支撑的可行性. 关键词： 毫米波 等离子体 时域积分法 衰减     

Seven matched bolometers for millimeter wave observations

We have fabricated a millimeter wave observation system using an array of bolometric detectors. The performance of the system depends largely on obtaining identical performance from each bolometer. We achieved a variance in the responsivity of less than 4% except for one of the seven elements. The bolometers had an electrical NEP of 1.3×10^–16 W/Hz under radiation background loading of 30pW. We used an AC bridge readout circuit to significantly improve the stability of the array and showed that observations can be done without a mechanical beam switch. The bolometer array is now in use on the Nobeyama 45-m telescope for 150GHz observations.H. Matsuo thanks those who helped him work on bolometers during his stay in Berkeley, especially to T. Wilbanks, M. Devlin and C. Inman. The authors are also grateful to S. Sato and T. Watabe at Nagoya University for their advice on the AC bridge circuit. This work is partly supported by the Shimazdu Science Foundation.     

A model based technique for recognizing targets by using millimeter wave radar signatures

A technique for recognizing real targets by millimeter wave (MMW) radar at 35 GHz and 94 GHz is presented. The recognition is performed by a model based technique in which real targets are represented by their high range resolution (HRR) profiles in hierarchical fashion.The unknown signal is classified by a model matching method and a coarse-fine searching technique. The advantages of this model based method are in low storage capacity, fast processing time and high recognition performance. Moreover this technique is very easily modifiable to incorporate multi sensor processing.We will present the results of the several experiments that we have conducted.     

Vibration-rotation effects on properties of symmetric tops and linear molecules

An expression is derived for the expectation value of an electronic property P in an arbitrary vibration-rotation state of (i) a symmetric top and (ii) a linear molecule. P is represented by a property surface in reduced normal coordinates. The formula, valid to first order of perturbation theory, is derived both by a contact transformation and by arguments based on the Hellmann-Feynman theorem.     

The millimeter wave rotational spectrum of N-cyanomethanimine,CH2NCN

The rotational spectrum of the short-lived species N-cyanomethanimine, CH₂NCN, has been measured in the frequency range 100–250 GHz. The observed transitions allow the determination of the rotational and centrifugal distortion constants and the nitrogen quadrupole coupling constants for both nitrogen nuclei. The N-cyanomethanimine spectrum was measured directly in the products of the pyrolysis of trimethylenetetrazole. The rotational constants obtained are A = 63 372.995(11) MHz, B = 5 449.347 90(28) MHz, and C = 5 009.559 86(29) MHz; the quadrupole coupling constants are χ_aa = 2.057(39) MHz and χ_bb ? χ_cc = ?7.205(21) MHz for the imine nitrogen, and χ_aa = ?3.264(33) MHz and χ_bb ? χ_cc = ?1.630(18) MHz for the cyano-group nitrogen. The accurate constants obtained allow the calculation of the line position and hyperfine structure of any rotational transition appropriate for a radioastronomical search.     

Hamiltonian treatment of the spherically symmetric einstein-Yang-Mills system

A canonical formalism of the dynamics of interacting spherically symmetric Yang-Mills and gravitational fields is presented. The work is based on Dirac's technique for constrained hamiltonian systems. The gauge freedom of the Yang-Mills field is treated in the same footing with the coordinate transformation freedom of the gravitational field. In particular, the fixation of coordinates and the fixation of the internal gauge are achieved by totally similar techniques. Two classes of spherically symmetric motions are considered: (i) the class for which the Yang-Mills potentials themselves are spherically symmetric (“manifest spherical symmetry”). In this case the results are valid for an arbitrary gauge group; and (ii) the class for which, in the SO(3) gauge group, a rotation in physical space is compensated by a rotation of equal magnitude but opposite direction in isospin space (“spherical symmetry up to a gauge transformation”). For manifest spherical symmetry the problem amounts to effectively dealing with an abelian gauge group and the most general solution of the field equations turns out to be the Reissner-Nordström metric with a Coulomb field. For spherical symmetry up to a gauge transformation the problem is more interesting. the formalism contains then, besides the gravitational variables, three pairs of functions of the radial coordinate that describe the degrees of freedom of the Yang-Mills field. Two pairs of these functions can be combined into a complex field ψ and its conjugate. The hamiltonian is then invariant under r-dependent rotations in the complex ψ-plane. The third degree of freedom plays the role of a compensating field associated with this invariance under localized U(l) rotations. The compensating field can always be brought to zero by a gauge transformation. After this is done the gauge is completely fixed but the problem remains invariant under position independent rotations in the ψ plane. Static solutions of the field equations in this gauge are of the form ψ(r) = (r) exp (iΘ) with Θ independent of position. The particular case Θ = 0 corresponds to the Wu-Yang ansatz. A nontrivial static solution can be found in closed form. The Yang-Mills field is of the generalized Wu-Yang type with an extra electric term, and the metric is the Reissner-Nordström one. It is pointed out that a Higgs field can be easily introduced in the formalism. The addition of the Higgs field does not destroy the invariance of the Hamiltonian under r-dependent rotations in the ψ-plane. The conserved quantity associated with the invariance under ψ → exp (i(const))ψ coincides with the electric charge as defined by 't Hooft in a more general context.     

毫米波折叠波导行波管输入输出过渡波导设计

折叠波导以其宽频带、加工方便而成为一类重要的毫米波与太赫兹波段行波管慢波线。针对折叠波导慢波系统与标准波导的匹配过渡连接,通过等效电路分析与电磁计算软件模拟,设计出了直渐变波导、双曲圆弧渐变波导、切比雪夫阶梯渐变波导3种输入输出过渡波导结构,分析了各种过渡波导的优缺点及结构尺寸对性能的影响。计算表明,经过合理优化的设计,3种过渡结构均可以使反射系数在28～40 GHz波段小于0.05。