Two-photon Decay of Singlet Metastable Helium

Open Access

1 January 1966

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Vol. 131 (2), 311-313
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/131.2.311

Abstract

The probability of two-photon decay of helium in the 2¹S metastable level is calculated to be 46 s⁻¹. The intensity distribution of the two-photon continuum is obtained.

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