THE DURATION OF THE 16 VOLT LEVELS OF NEON

1 May 1950

journal article
Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Research

Vol. 28a (3) , 339-358
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjr50a-030

Abstract

Electronic apparatus has been developed to determine the rate of decay of the 16 volt levels of neon after the interruption of an electrical discharge, by measurement of the absorption of a monochromatic light beam. The half life of the ³P₂ metastable level has been determined as a function of pressure and discharge tube diameter. The ³P₀ and ³P₁ levels exhibit a pronounced departure from an exponential decay. The hypothesis of the imprisonment of resonance radiation is consistent with the measured duration of the ¹P₁ and ³P₁ levels.

Keywords

VOLT LEVELS
FUNCTION
RESONANCE
NEON
DURATION
IMPRISONMENT
MONOCHROMATIC
3P2
3P0

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