Radiative lifetimes in neutral platinum

Abstract
Radiative lifetimes have been measured for 15 odd parity levels of neutral platinum using the technique of laser-excited fluorescence from sputtered metal vapour. The results differ significantly for two of the four levels measured previously by the beam-sputtering method. The new lifetimes for four levels are combined with the recent branching ratio data of Lotrian and Guern (1982) to derive revised transition probabilities for 15 lines and new transition probabilities for six lines.