IMPROVED LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS OF THE 3D(3/2) AND 3D(5/2) METASTABLE STATES OF CA-II

被引:34
作者
ARBES, F
BENZING, M
GUDJONS, T
KURTH, F
WERTH, G
机构
[1] Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz
来源
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHYSIK D-ATOMS MOLECULES AND CLUSTERS | 1994年 / 29卷 / 03期
关键词
32.70.Fw; 32.80.Pj;
D O I
10.1007/BF01437133
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学]; O56 [分子物理学、原子物理学];
学科分类号
070203 ; 070304 ; 081704 ; 1406 ;
摘要
The lifetimes of both metastable 3D-levels of Ca+ have been measured using the ion storage technique. Operation at UHV-conditions eliminated the earlier reported problems of collisional finestructure mixing between those states [1], which is inherent to measurements at buffergas background. The results of tau(D3/2) = 1113(45) ms and tau(D5/2) = 1054(61) ms improve our earlier result [1] by almost one order of magnitude and are in good agreement with recent theoretical calculations [3, 4, 5].
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