Collisional properties of highly excited rubidium atoms
- 28 August 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Vol. 12 (16), 2707-2722
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3700/12/16/017
Abstract
The quenching cross sections of various highly excited states of rubidium have been measured for different perturbing gases (He, Ar, Xe, ground-state rubidium). The quenching of the hydrogenic nF states is shown to be mainly a l-mixing process. The behaviour as a function of n (9<or=n<or=21) and the magnitude of the l-mixing cross sections seem mainly to reflect the range of interaction between the highly excited electron and the perturber.Keywords
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