Measurement of Atomic Oscillator Strength Distribution from the Excited States
- National Tokamak Fusion Program P.O. Box 3329 Islamabad Pakistan (Pakistan)
- Optics Laboratory PINSTECH Nilore Islamabad (Pakistan)
- Atomic Molecular Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320 (Pakistan)
Saturation technique has been employed to measure the oscillator strength distribution in spectra of helium lithium using an electrical discharge cell a thermionic diode ion detector respectively. The photoabsorption cross sections in the discrete or bound region (commonly known as f-values) have been determined form the Rydberg series accessed from a particular excited state calibrating it with the absolute value of the photoionization cross section measured at the ionization threshold. The extracted discrete f-values merge into the oscillator strength densities, estimated from the measured photoionization cross sections at different photon energies above the first ionization threshold. The experimental data on helium and lithium show continuity between the discrete and the continuous oscillator strengths across the ionization threshold.
- OSTI ID:
- 21251542
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1058, Issue 1; Conference: 19. international conference on spectral line shapes, Valladolid (Spain), 15-20 Jun 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3026415; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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