Excited State Wave Functions, Excitation Energies, and Oscillator Strengths forNe(2p53s)

Solutions of the Hartree-Fock equations for the ${}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}P$ and ${}_{}{}^1{}_{}{}^{}P$ terms of neon ($2p^{5}3s$) have been obtained. Wave functions are tabulated and results of computations of excitation energies and oscillator strengths are presented. The former fall within 10% of experimental values. It is found that enlarging the size of the "invariant core" used to compute the excited state wave functions has only a small effect on the predicted energies. The predicted oscillator strength of the 736 A transition is 0.11, which is in reasonable agreement with available experimental data considering the large uncertainties in the measurements. The computed diamagnetic susceptibility of the ground state is -7.4×${10}^{-6\mathrm{}}$ ${\mathrm{cm}}^{-3\mathrm{}}$ mole, in good agreement with experiment.