All-Experimental Values of Self-Quenching Cross-Sections for nf States (n = 5-8) of Potassium Atoms

All-experimental self-quenching cross-sections

All-Experimental Values of Self-Quenching Cross-Sections for nf States (n = 5-8) of Potassium Atoms

All-experimental self-quenching cross-sections

Cross Sections for l-Mixing of K(n2\text{}^{2}F) States in Collisions with Ground-State K(42\text{}^{2}S) Atoms

We report measurements of the cross sections σ$\text{}_{l-mix}$ for angular momentum mixing of the K(n$\text{}^{2}$F)(n=6, 7, 8) states with the K(n,l > 3) states, induced in thermal collisions with parent ground state K(4$\text{}^{2}$S) atoms. The experiment was performed in a cell heated to ca. 450K. The n$\text{}^{2}$F states were excited in two steps: 4$\text{}^{2}$S → 4$\text{}^{2}$P → n$\text{}^{2F}$ by using a diode laser for the first step (a dipole-transition) and a pulsed dye laser for the second step (a quadrupole-transition). The measured values σ$\text{}_{l-mix}$ (6$\text{}^{2}$F)=3.6+-2.2, σ$\text{}_{l-mix}$ (7$\text{}^{2}$F)=4.2+-2.6 and σ$\text{}_{l-mix}$ (8$\text{}^{2}$F)=8.0+-4.6 (in units of 10$\text{}^{-13}$cm$\text{}^{-1}$) are close to the corresponding values of the geometrical cross sections