Natural radiative lifetimes in Ce II

Z.G. Zhang, S. Svanberg, Z. Jiang, P. Palmeri, P. Quinet and E. Biémont

Phys. Scr. (in press, 2000)




New radiative lifetimes of 18 levels (energy range between 30000 cm-1 and 39000 cm-1) in Ce II have been mesured using the time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence method. A tunable frequency-doubled dye laser with 1 ns pulse duration was used to excite selectively singly ionized cerium in a laser-produced plasma. The experimental results are compared with theoretical data and the agreement is found very good.


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