Associative ionization in collisions between Na(3P3/2) and Cs(6P3/2)
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 43 (5) , 2311-2315
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.43.2311
Abstract
The results of an experiment on the associative ionization collision between sodium and cesium excited atoms are reported. The atoms are excited by two resonant cw lasers to the 3 and 6 levels, respectively, and the formation of the molecular ion is observed. The rate constant of such process has been measured relative to the known rate constant of sodium associative ionization and its value resulted in K=(5.4±3.2)× .
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