Coincident Photon Coherence Analysis of the Mercury6S01−6P13−6S01Excitation/Deexcitation Process in Terms of Spin-Orbit Effects

Abstract

The electron-photon delayed-coincidence technique was used to measure the coincident photon radiation for the $6{}_{}{}^1{}_{}{}^{}S_0^{}{}_{}{}^{}\to 6{}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}P_1^{}{}_{}{}^{}\to 6{}_{}{}^1{}_{}{}^{}S_0^{}{}_{}{}^{}$ process of mercury by electron impact. This process, which is found to be partially coherent, has been analyzed with a new parametrization which takes into account spin-orbit coupling.