We report the spectroscopy of 11 electronic states in the radioactive
molecule radium monofluoride (RaF). The observed excitation energies are
compared with state-of-the-art relativistic Fock-space coupled cluster (FS-RCC)
calculations, which achieve an agreement of >99.71% (within ~8 meV) for all
states. High-order electron correlation and quantum electrodynamics corrections
are found to be important at all energies. Establishing the accuracy of
calculations is an important step towards high-precision studies of these
molecules, which are proposed for sensitive searches of physics beyond the
Standard Model.Comment: Submitted for publicatio