Decay of the2S13State in Heliumlike Chlorine

Abstract
The lifetime of a long-lived K x-ray emitter produced in foil excitation of chlorine beams between 40.3 and 57.5 MeV has been measured to be 280±25 nsec. The measured photon energy of the transition indicates that it arises from the 1S012S13 decay in heliumlike chlorine. The observed lifetime is shorter than the theoretical M1 lifetime of 381 nsec predicted for this transition.