Absolute Measurement of Ionization Cross Sections in Collisions Between Rydberg Sodium Atoms.
Abstract
Absolute ionization cross sections have been determined for collisions between sodium atoms in laser-selected Ryberg states. Measurements were made in a thermal-energy self -colliding beam for n = 26-29 D states. The cross sections have been found to be roughly fifty times geometric and show fair agreement with a recent classical trajectory Monte Carlo calculation but differ greatly from an earlier indirect measurement.
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984PhDT........76G
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- Physics: Atomic