Photon-Scattering Theory of the Quenching of Hydrogenic Metastables

1 July 1973

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 8 (1) , 157-160
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.8.157

Abstract

The quenching of hydrogenic metastables is formulated as a near-resonant photon-scattering problem, and a complete analysis of the polarization and angular distribution of the emitted radiation is presented. The contribution from

np

states with

n > 2

is calculated, and an alternative method of measuring the Lamb shift is suggested.

Keywords

SCATTERING THEORY

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