“…The hyperfine structure of singlyionized lanthanum has been investigated with a range of techniques [11,12], including experimental observations using grating spectroscopy [13], interferometry [14], collinear ion-beam-laser spectroscopy [15][16][17][18], Fourier transform spectroscopy [2,19], a laser and radiofrequency double resonance technique [20], and laser-induced fluorescence [21][22][23], as well as theoretical calculations using a classical parametric scheme [24], a relativistic configuration-interaction method [25], and a semiempirical method [21,22]. Although many of the parameters for doubly-ionized lanthanum (La III; La 2+ ) also have been investigated experimentally [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] and theoretically [6,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42], the hyperfine structure of La 2+ is known for only a few energy levels. Specifically, using grating spectroscopy [31,43] and interferometry [44] the hyperfine structure of the metastable 6s 2 S 1/2 and excited 6p 2 P 1/2,3/2 levels of La 2+ were measured.…”