Impact of buffer gas quenching on the 1S0 → 1P1 ground-state atomic transition in nobelium
- Chhetri, Premaditya
- Ackermann, Dieter
- Backe, Hartmut
- Block, Michael
- Cheal, Bradley
- Düllmann, Christoph Emanuel
- Even, Julia
- Ferrer, Rafael
- Giacoppo, Francesca
- Götz, Stefan
- Heßberger, Fritz Peter
- Kaleja, Oliver
- Khuyagbaatar, Jadambaa
- Kunz, Peter
- Laatiaoui, Mustapha
- Lautenschläger, Felix
- Lauth, Werner
- Ramirez, Enrique Minaya
- Mistry, Andrew Kishor
- Raeder, Sebastian
- Wraith, Calvin
- Walther, Thomas
- Yakushev, Alexander
Publication date
July 2017
DOI Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC ISSN
1434-6060Abstract
Using the sensitive Radiation Detected Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (RADRIS) technique an optical transition in neutral nobelium (No, Z = 102) was identified. A remnant signal when delaying the ionizing laser indicated the influence of a strong buffer gas induced de-excitation of the optically populated level. A subsequent investigation of the chemical homologue, ytterbium (Yb, Z = 70), enabled a detailed study of the atomic levels involved in this process, leading to the development of a rate equation model. This paves the way for characterizing resonance ionization spectroscopy (RIS) schemes used in the study of nobelium and beyond, where atomic properties are currently unknown
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