Isotropic collision-induced scattering from high-temperature gaseous mercury
Marco Sampoli, F. Hensel, F. Barocchi
We have measured the isotropic collision-induced light-scattering spectrum of a metal vapor, i.e., mercury vapor at temperature T=973 K and densities around 0.113 atom/${\mathrm{nm}}^{3}$, by means of an apparatus which allows us to perform comparisons between polarized and depolarized Raman spectra in high-temperature high-pressure gases and metal vapors. We have then derived an empirical model for the collision-induced polarizability trace of mercury diatom. Similarly to the anisotropy, the obtained trace behaves rather differently from the noble-gas counterpart, showing strong contributions from the electron correlations in the overlap region. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
Physical Review A•Jun 1, 1996•12 citations