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A New Sensitive Technique for Laser Spectroscopic Studies of Radioactive Rare-Gas Isotopes
Walter NeuW BorchersRainer NeugartKlaus WendtEddy ArnoldG. Ulmsubject
Materials scienceIsotopelawIonizationIsotopes of xenonPhysics::Atomic PhysicsAtomic physicsLaserSpectroscopyHyperfine structureFluorescence spectroscopylaw.inventionIondescription
The concept of laser ionization has been widely used in spectroscopy studies and for the detection of minute samples of atoms. Being based on ion counting, it avoids the sensitivity problems of conventional fluorescence spectroscopy, which are due to low detection efficiency and large background from scattered laser light. We report the first application of an alternative ionization scheme which we have developed for collinear laser spectroscopy on fast atomic beams /1/. Here the increase in sensitivity has considerably enlarged the range of isotopes very far from stability, for which nuclear moments and radii can be investigated in hyperfine structure and isotope shift measurements.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-01-01 |