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The Astrophysical Journal

Spectrum of the Two-Photon Emission from the Metastable State of Singly Ionized Helium

Carmine J. Artura, NORMAN H. TOLK, Robert Novick

Published Sep 1, 1969• 22 citations
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Abstract

Verification has been made of the theoretically predicted spectral distribution of the two-photon emission from the metastable 2 2s112 state of singly ionized helium by means of a broad-band spectro- scopic coincidence counting technique
DOI
10.1086/180415

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