A state selective metastable detector
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Measurement Science and Technology
- Vol. 2 (6) , 568-570
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-0233/2/6/015
Abstract
The design of a simple low-energy metastable detector is described. A time-of-flight technique is used to analyse a metastable nitrogen gas beam and this reveals that the detector may be used to state-select metastable states from the composite beam.Keywords
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