Ozone Excited States: Production and Atmospheric Reactions

将研究臭氧激发态的形成、能量转移过程和化学反应，并根据实验结果建立这些过程的动力学模型。具体地说，他们计划测量绝对量子产率随波长、压力、气体组成和温度的函数的波长依赖性，并研究激发的臭氧状态的化学反应。这项研究的动机是需要评估臭氧激发态在大气中的潜在重要性，在确定状态、产生的量子产额、波长相关性、猝灭步骤的产物、几个观察到的态之间的联系以及基元反应的速率系数之前，无法实现这一点。

The formation, energy transfer processes, and chemical reactions of the ozone excited states will be investigated and a kinetic model of these processes, based upon the experimental results, will be constructed. Specifically, they plan to measure the wavelength dependence of the absolute quantum yields as functions of wavelength, pressure, gas composition, and temperature, and to investigate chemical reactions of the excited ozone states. The research is motivated by the need to assess the potential atmospheric importance of ozone excited states which cannot be accomplished until the states, the quantum yields for production, the wavelength dependencies, the products of the quenching steps, the connections among the several observed states, and the rate coefficients for the elementary reactions have been identified.