Precision measurement of the 2 sup 3 S r arrow 3 sup 3 P transition in sup 4 He
Journal Article
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· Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States)
- Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 ONG (United Kingdom)
- National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 OLW (United Kingdom)
We report on a precision measurement of the 2 {sup 3}{ital S}--3 {sup 3}{ital P} transition in {sup 4}He. Doppler-free spectra of the transition were observed by exciting metastable helium atoms, produced by a chopped rf discharge, using 389-nm radiation generated by a frequency-doubled Ti-doped sapphire laser. A frequency measurement of the Doppler-free lines was made by interferrometric comparison of the Ti-doped sapphire frequency with that of an iodine-stabilized He-Ne laser using a 1-m evacuated Fabry-Perot etalon. The measurement uncertainty was 2 parts in 10{sup 9} (3 standard deviations), which gives an improvement of a factor of 60 in the term value of the 3 {sup 3}{ital P} level with respect to earlier measurements. This result makes it possible to determine the one electron Lamb-shift correction to the 3 {sup 3}{ital P} state with an accuracy of 0.8%.
- OSTI ID:
- 7047700
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States) Vol. 45:5; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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664200* -- Spectra of Atoms & Molecules & their Interactions with Photons-- (1992-)
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
CORRECTIONS
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
ENERGY LEVELS
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EXCITED STATES
HELIUM 4
HELIUM ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LAMB SHIFT
LASER SPECTROSCOPY
LIGHT NUCLEI
METASTABLE STATES
MULTIPLETS
NUCLEI
P STATES
S STATES
SPECTRAL SHIFT
SPECTROSCOPY
STABLE ISOTOPES
TRIPLETS
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
CORRECTIONS
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
ENERGY LEVELS
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EXCITED STATES
HELIUM 4
HELIUM ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LAMB SHIFT
LASER SPECTROSCOPY
LIGHT NUCLEI
METASTABLE STATES
MULTIPLETS
NUCLEI
P STATES
S STATES
SPECTRAL SHIFT
SPECTROSCOPY
STABLE ISOTOPES
TRIPLETS