Abstract

Four experiments involving individual and combined effects of electric fields and multiple exciter foils on beam-foil-excited hydrogen atoms are described.

The use of multiple exciter foils shows that excitation equilibrium does not occur in the thin carbon foils used here. The change of the rate of decay of Ly-α flux emitted by beam-foil excited hydrogen atoms in an electric field has been used to determine the relative populations of the 2s and 2p levels at the foil. The 2s level is overpopulated with respect to the 2p level when one foil is used and two exciter foils enhance the overpopulations. Photoelectric measurements of Ly-α flux and photographic measurements of the decay of Balmer-δ flux emitted by atoms in an electric field show that quasiperiodic intensity variations exist on the decay curve. The variations are attributed to the effect of the electric field but discrepancies arise between the experimental frequencies and those calculated from Stark-effect theory.

© 1968 Optical Society of America

Beam-Foil Excitation of Multiply Ionized Nitrogen*

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Beam-Foil Spectrum of Sulfur 600–4000 Å

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