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View SchemaLifetime measurement of the ^3P_2 metastable state of strontium atoms
| Authors | Masami Yasuda, Hidetoshi Katori |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0310074 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310074 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.153004 |
Abstract
We have measured the lifetime of the 5s5p ^3P_2 metastable state of strontium atoms by magneto-optically trapping the decayed atoms to the ground state, which allowed sensitive detection of the rare decay events. We found that the blackbody radiation-induced decay was the dominant decay channel for the state at T = 300 K. The lifetime was determined to be 500^{+280}_{-130} s in the limit of zero temperature.
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