Measurement of electron-impact excitation cross sections out of metastable levels of argon and comparison with ground-state excitation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2749-2763

  Boffard, John B ^a   Piech, Garrett A ^a   Gehrke, Mark F ^a   Anderson, L W ^a   Lin, Chun C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0001207661     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.2749     Document Type: Article

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