2011
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.84.010501
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Lifetime measurement of the cesium6P3/2state using ultrafast laser-pulse excitation and ionization

Abstract: We report a precision measurement of the cesium 6P 3/2 excited-state lifetime. Two collimated, counterpropagating thermal Cs beams cross perpendicularly to femtosecond pulsed laser beams. High timing accuracy is achieved from having excitation and ionization laser pulses which originate from the same mode-locked laser. Using pulse selection we vary the separation in time between excitation and ionization laser pulses while counting the ions produced. We obtain a Cs 6P 3/2 lifetime of 30.460(38) ns, which is a … Show more

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“…As there is only one spontaneous decay channel 6p j → 6s 1/2 for each of the 6p j states, experimentally measured lifetimes of the states can be used to determine the transition matrix elements. Table IV lists the presently calculated lifetimes of the 6p 1/2 and 6p 3/2 states together with other experimental results [32,37,49,[53][54][55][56]. The present RCICP lifetime of the 6p 1/2 state is smaller than the experimental result [32] by about 0.6%.…”
Section: B Dipole Transition Matrix Elementsmentioning
confidence: 45%
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“…As there is only one spontaneous decay channel 6p j → 6s 1/2 for each of the 6p j states, experimentally measured lifetimes of the states can be used to determine the transition matrix elements. Table IV lists the presently calculated lifetimes of the 6p 1/2 and 6p 3/2 states together with other experimental results [32,37,49,[53][54][55][56]. The present RCICP lifetime of the 6p 1/2 state is smaller than the experimental result [32] by about 0.6%.…”
Section: B Dipole Transition Matrix Elementsmentioning
confidence: 45%
“…For the 6p 3/2 state, the present lifetime agrees well with the experimental results from Refs. [37,49,[53][54][55], while it is smaller than the experimental results of Tanner et al [56] and of Rafac et al [32] just by about 0.3%.…”
Section: B Dipole Transition Matrix Elementsmentioning
confidence: 52%
“…Another method to explore the situation experimentally is to use one laser pulse to excite F@C 60 by inducing an electron transfer and another pulse to ionize the hybrid levels to probe excited state cross sections. Such two-color two-step photoionization measurement techniques have been used earlier [42][43][44]. Based on this technique, an electron can be selectively promoted from a chosen C 60 level, namely C 60 HOMO or a hybrid level, to form metastable configurations.…”
Section: Experimental Possibilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The femtosecond laser technology allows to perform the highly accurate pump-probe atomic lifetime measurements. In particular, the so-called pump-probe technique has been used already in the lifetime measurements of the 6P 3/2 excited-state in cesium atom which is relevant to the atomic parity non-conservation [12,13]. In contrast to neutral atoms, transitions to excited states in ions quickly reach the XUV-or X-ray energy range and, therefore, for the pumping and/or probing processes a high-photon flux of XUV-or X-ray sources is required.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%