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Physical Review Letters

Strong Hyperfine Induced Quenching of a Metastable State in Xe+ Observed by Hyperfine Selective Laser Probing of a Stored Ion Beam

S. Mannervik, Lars Broström, Johan Lidberg, Lars-Olov Norlin, Peder Royen

Published May 13, 1996• 35 citations
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Abstract

A hyperfine state selective laser probing technique is presented to be used for lifetime determination of metastable states in an ion storage ring. Evidence for a drastic difference between the decay rates of the hyperfine states of the metastable level $5d{}^{4}{D}_{7/2}$ in ${}^{129}{\mathrm{Xe}}^{+}$ has been obtained by this method.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.76.3675

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