Second spectrum of Chromium (Cr II) Part I: New energy level reanalysis

Using a linked-parametric technique of level-fitting calculations in a multiconfiguration basis, a parametric fine structure (fs) analysis for both even and odd parities of Cr II was achieved. For the first time the fs parameter, magnetic Landé g-factor and the percentage of leading eigenvector values for more than one thousand levels are determined and given for these two sets. This study has led us to confirm in the whole the well founded basis of NIST team works but inevitably also to exchange assignments of some levels classified in earlier lists of energy levels and to shift positions of some quartets like 4FJ for instance. Furthermore we take this opportunity to add our predicted doublet, quartet and sextet locations for missing experimental levels up to 124,000 cm−1. © 2017 Elsevier Inc.