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Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

9-2017

Citation

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 119, 093401 (2017)

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.093401

Comments

© 2017 American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We measure the integrated Stokes parameters of light from Zn (4s4p)43P0,1-(4s5s)53S1 transitions excited by a transversely polarized electron impact at energies between 7.0 and 8.5 eV. Our results for the electron-polarization-normalized linear polarization Stokes parameter P2, between incident electron energies 7.0 and 7.4 eV, are consistent with zero, as required by basic angular-momentum coupling considerations and by recent theoretical calculations. They are in qualitative disagreement with previous experimental results for the P2 parameter.

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