First Experimental Determination of the Ionization Potentials of Berkelium and Californium
First Experimental Determination of the Ionization Potentials of Berkelium and Californium
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锫和锎电离势的首次实验测定
DOI:
10.1002/anie.199628561
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发表时间:
1996
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通讯作者:
N. Trautmann
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作者:
S. Köhler;N. Erdmann;M. Nunnemann;G. Herrmann;G. Huber;J. Kratz;G. Passler;N. Trautmann
The first ionization potential is a fundamental property of an element and is of great importance for many physical and chemical processes. Its accurate determination enables one to identify systematic trends in binding energies from element to element, and to draw conclusions on the electronic structure of atoms, since the first ionization potential is directiy connected to the atomic spectrum: The energy levels can either be given as (negative) binding energies, where the ionization potential represents the energetic zero point, or as (positive) excitation energies. In this case the level energy En for n+ r;. converges to the ionization potential.Reliable information about the electronic structure of the heaviest elements is needed to be able to state whether the regularities of the Periodic Table of Elements are maintained up through these elements or whether they are disturbed.“’The first ionization potential is a property that sensitively depends on relativistic effects, which are expected in the heaviest elements as a result of the relativistic mass increase of the inner electrons.[’I The precise determination of the first ionization potential of these elements can serve as a test of the predictions of relativistic multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calc~ lations.~~~ Furthermore, the first ionization potential is an important quantity in the Born-Haber cycle. r41 The most accurate ionization potentials have been obtained by laser spectroscopic methods. The first ionization potentials of the lanthanide elements as well as those of uranium and the lighter transuranium elements neptunium and plutonium have been determined very accurately from the convergence of long series of highly excited Rydberg A large amount of data is required for a correct interpretation of the spectra, due to configuration-interactions. The determination of the first ionization potential of plutonium by Worden et a1.[81 shows the limitations of the method: up to 2 g of radioactive 239Pu had to be used.