Abstract
Using an electromagnetically driven shock tube and rapid scanning Fabry-Perot spectrometer, the Lorentzian half-width of the 4663-Å line of singly ionized aluminum was measured and found to be 0.45 Å ± 20% for an environment corresponding to and °K. Semiclassical and semiempirical calculations yielded values of 0.56 Å and 0.41 Å, respectively, while the distorted-wave approximation gave 0.51 Å. Our measurement and the calculated values fall a factor of 5 below the results of a previous experiment.
- Received 7 October 1974
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.11.477
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