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Title: | Highly excited states of atomic potassium in an external electric field |
Author(s): | Hillard, Grover Barry |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Nayfeh, Munir H. |
Department / Program: | Physics |
Discipline: | Physics |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | photoionization spectrum
atomic potassium quasi-bound Stark states electric field enhanced collision depolarization |
Abstract: | The photoionization spectrum of potassium in an external electric field is examined. Detailed studies are made of the strengths, spacing, and polarization dependence of the quasi-bound Stark states lying above E = O. The results are interpreted as the first observation of electric field enhanced collisional depolarization by charged particles. This conclusion is supported by calculations indicating a depolarizing cross section as large as 10-5 cm2 for the conditions of the experiment. |
Issue Date: | 1984 |
Genre: | Dissertation / Thesis |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/25322 |
Rights Information: | 1984 Grover Barry Hillard |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2011-06-07 |
Identifier in Online Catalog: | 1958414 |
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