HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT AND MULTICHANNEL QUANTUM-DEFECT THEORY ANALYSIS OF THE ODD-PARITY J=1 SERIES IN MERCURY

Authors
BAIG MA ALI R BHATTI SA
Citation
Ma. Baig et al., HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENT AND MULTICHANNEL QUANTUM-DEFECT THEORY ANALYSIS OF THE ODD-PARITY J=1 SERIES IN MERCURY, Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics, 14(4), 1997, pp. 731-736
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
07403224
Volume
14
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
731 - 736
Database
ISI
SICI code
0740-3224(1997)14:4<731:HMAMQT>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We report new high-resolution photoabsorption measurements of the prin cipal and the intercombination series in neutral mercury by use of a 3 -m vacuum spectrograph equipped with a 6000-line/mm holographic gratin g and synchrotron radiation as the background source of the continuum. The perturbations observed in these Rydberg series are parameterized by a three-channel quantum-defect theory. An improved value of the fir st ionization potential is derived as 84 184.15 +/- 0.07 cm(-1). (C) 1 997 Optical Society of America.