Methyl mercaptan (CH3SH) as a probe for $\mu$ variation

Abstract

Torsion-rotation transitions in molecules exhibiting hindered internal rotation possess enhanced sensitivities to a variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio. This enhancement occurs due to a cancellation of energies associated with the torsional and rotational degrees of freedom of the molecule. This effect occurs generally in every internal rotor molecule, but is exceptionally large in methanol. In this paper we calculate the sensitivity coefficients of methyl mercaptan, the thiol analogue of methanol. The obtained sensitivity coefficients in this molecule range from $K_{\mu }=-14.8$ to $+12.2$ for transitions with a lower-level excitation energy below 10\,cm${}^{-1}$.

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