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[en] For the principal isotopologue 14N32S19F3 of thiazyl trifluoride in the degenerate fundamental state (v5=1), the hyperfine structure has been investigated in the Q-branch spectrum between 8 and 26.5 GHz using microwave Fourier transform waveguide spectrometers with a resolution limit of ≅30 kHz. In addition to l-type doubling spectra and l-type resonance transitions with (Δk=Δl=±2), perturbation-allowed spectra were measured with Δ(k-l)=±3,±6. The range in J was from 13 to 61; for the lower states, kl=-3,-2,-1,0,+1. For all the transitions, the hyperfine patterns observed are predicted to be doublets when only the nitrogen quadrupole Hamiltonian HQN is taken into account. Doublets were indeed measured for transitions with ΓRV=A1↔A2, where ΓRV is the rovibrational symmetry. However, when ΓRV=E↔E, triplets and quartets were observed in addition to doublets. These anomalous hyperfine patterns are shown to be due to the (Δk=±1) and (Δk=±2) matrix elements of the fluorine spin-rotation Hamiltonian HSRF characterized by the fluorine spin-rotation constants c(1)=(1/2)(cxz+czx*) and c(2)=(1/2)(cxx-cyy), respectively. These terms in HSRF lift the parity degeneracy for ΓRV=E. The rovibrational Hamiltonian HRV was adopted from an earlier partner study [S. Macholl et al., J. Phys. Chem. A 113, 668 (2009)]. A good fit to the hyperfine data was obtained with a standard deviation of 3.1 kHz. In the fitting process, 12 rovibrational parameters were varied, while the remaining constants in HRV were left at the values of Macholl et al. In addition, six hyperfine parameters were determined: four in HQN, and two in HSRF. It was found that |c(1)|=7.48(24) kHz and |c(2)|=2.423(22) kHz. This determination of c(1) is the first to be reported based on frequency measurements. In all the previous detections of parity doubling where the splittings were accounted for quantitatively, the levels involved had K=|k|=1 in studies of the ground vibrational state or G≡|k-l|=1 in investigations of degenerate vibrational states. In the current work, several different values of G were involved, thus demonstrating experimentally for the first time that this splitting process is a general phenomenon. The key to the observation of the parity doubling lies in the regional resonances discovered by Macholl et al. The clustering of rovibrational levels at low K leads to severe mixing. For each eigenstate involved in a regional resonance, the eigenstate consists of a linear superposition of basis vectors with several different values of kl having sizable expansion coefficients. As a result, the (Δk=±1,±2) matrix elements of HSRF that typically connect levels widely separated in energy occur here effectively on the diagonal, thereby greatly enhancing the effects of c(1) and c(2). These spin-rotation matrix elements are derived here for ΓRV=E in the low-field representation.
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