Systematic Investigation of Electron Densities at The Nucleus for Rydberg States of Barium

Abstract
Isotope shifts of even Ba isotopes in transitions to 6snsS01 and 6sndD21,3 Rydberg states have been used to study systematically the change in electron density at the nucleus. For n>~11 the total charge density at the origin approaches that of Ba+. Local perturbers strongly effect the electron density, and admixture coefficients can be derived which are in quantitative agreement with those from multichannel quantum defect theory.