Spectroscopic studies of solid Ar condensed on a gold surfaceстатья
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Аннотация:We have studied condensed solid argon films on a gold surface, measuring its reflected electron energy-loss spectra (REELS) and X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) at the temperatures 5 K and 20 K. We have also reproduced theoretically the REELS considering both face-centered cubic (FCC) and hexagonal close-packed (HCP) lattices of solid argon using density-functional theory (DFT), GW approximation, random-phase approximation (RPA) and the Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE). In the calculations the local-field dielectric screening, quasiparticles, and excitonic effects have been taken into account. The excitonic peaks in the REELS appear at ~12 eV whereas the calculated electronic bandgap amounts to 14.3–14.4 eV for both the FCC and HCP lattices. Our results show that a solid argon film is a wide-gap dielectric best suited for implanting Th and studying its low-lying nuclear transition in 229Th with the energy of 8.2 eV.