Published September 8, 1975 | Version v1
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Collisional angular momentum mixing in Rydberg states of sodium

Creators

  • 1. Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California 94025

Description

Collisions with rare-gas atoms are observed to produce a lengthening of the lifetime of the highly excited (n=5--10) d states of Na. The effect is interpreted as collisional angular momentum mixing of the d statewith L>2 states; thus the average lifetime of all states for which Lgreater than or equal to2 is observed. The cross section for the process appears to increase as the geometrical cross section of the excited atom

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DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.35.644;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
35
Journal Issue
10
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
644-647
ISSN
0031-9007

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
7225877
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ARGON; ATOM-ATOM COLLISIONS; CROSS SECTIONS; D STATES; EXCITATION; EXCITED STATES; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LASER RADIATION; LIFETIME; S STATES; SODIUM
Descriptors DEC
ALKALI METALS; ATOM COLLISIONS; COLLISIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; METALS; NONMETALS; RADIATIONS; RARE GASES; SPECTROSCOPY

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