Comment on the reliability of experimental atomic mean lives obtained with the beam-foil technique
- 1 February 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 9 (2) , 1004-1006
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.9.1004
Abstract
It has been suggested by Laughlin and Dalgarno that transition probabilities derived from beam-foil mean lives are invariably too low as a result of underestimating the importance of cascade repopulation. We show that there is in fact no systematic disagreement between recent beam-foil experiments and recent theoretical calculations. A brief discussion of the factors limiting the accuracy of beam-foil mean lives is also given.Keywords
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