Abstract
We present a kinetic model for optical pumping in and ions as well as a theoretical approach to calculate the transport properties of in its ground and metastable states in helium background gas. Calculations of the initial ion state populations, the field and temperature dependence of the mobilities and diffusion coefficients, and the ion arrival time distributions demonstrate that the ground- and metastable-state ions can be collected and discriminated efficiently under realistic macroscopic conditions.
7 More- Received 10 April 2020
- Accepted 11 June 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.013106
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How to Measure Superheavy Spectra
Published 10 July 2020
A proposed technique could allow researchers to measure spectra of elements above atomic number 102, despite the tiny quantities in which they are produced.
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