Orientation and alignment of the 3p ¹P and 4d ¹D levels of neutral helium

Authors

• R. M. Schectman, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
• R. D. Hight, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
• S. T. Chen, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
• L. J. Curtis, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
• H. G. Berry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Timothy J. Gay, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
• R. Deserio, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

October 1980

Comments

Published in Phys. Rev. A 22, 1591 - 1599 (1980) [Issue 4 – October 1980]. ©1980 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

The alignment and orientation produced by the tilted-foil excitation of He was studied for a wide range of foil tilt angles and outgoing-atom velocities. In particular, two quantum states of different orbital angular momentum (3p ¹P and 4d ¹D) were investigated and the results were compared with a number of previously proposed models.