Two-photon decay of excited levels in hydrogen: The ambiguity of the separation of cascades and pure two-photon emission

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Labzowsky, L ^a,b   Solovyev, D ^a   Plunien, G ^c  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE TRANSITIONS; DECAY CHANNELS; EARLY UNIVERSE; EXCITED LEVELS; EXISTING METHOD; HYDROGEN ATOMS; IMAGINARY PARTS; LAMB SHIFTS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON EMISSION;

ASTROPHYSICS; DECAY (ORGANIC); EXCITED STATES; HYDROGEN; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SEPARATION;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 73549083599     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.062514     Document Type: Article

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