Laser-molecular beam measurement of hyperfine structure in the I2 spectrum

Very high resolution measurements of hyperfine structure on the P(13) and R(15), 43?0, $\text{3}{}_{\mathrm{gp}}{}_0{}^{\mathrm{+}}{}_{\mathrm{u}}\text{←}{}^1\text{Σ}{}_{\mathrm{g}}{}^{\mathrm{+}}$ transitions in iodine 127 were made using laser molecular beam spectroscopy. The observed linewidth was 300 kHz (fwhm) giving a resolution of 5 × 10^?10 The observed spectrum was fitted to obtain a quadrupole coupling strength difference of ΔeQq = 1906 ± 2 MHz and a spin rotation interaction strength difference of ΔC_I = 181 ± 7 kHz between the upper and lower levels of the P(13) transition. For the R (15) transition ΔeQq = 1905 ± 2 MHz and ΔC_I = 167 ± 5 kHz.