which correlate with Cd (5 s 5 p 1 P 1) and the ground‐state rare‐gas atoms. The van der
Waals molecules were created in a free jet supersonic expansion and studied by laser‐
induced fluorescence, dispersed fluorescence, laser pump/probe action spectra, and
spectral simulations. The C 1Π1 states are found to be more strongly bound than their triplet
counterparts: 116Cd20Ne (D e= 89 cm− 1, ω e= 23.36 cm− 1, ω exe= 1.80 cm− 1, re …