Experimental investigation of excited-state lifetimes in atomic ytterbium

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Bowers, CJ [1 ]
Budker, D [1 ]
Commins, ED [1 ]
DeMille, D [1 ]
Freedman, SJ [1 ]
Nguyen, AT [1 ]
Shang, SQ [1 ]
Zolotorev, M [1 ]
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[1] STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CTR, STANFORD, CA 94309 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevA.53.3103
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Lifetimes of 21 excited states in atomic Yb were measured using time-resolved fluorescence detection following pulsed laser excitation. The lifetime of the 4f(14)5d6s D-3(1) state, which is of particular importance for a proposed study of parity nonconservation in atoms, was measured to be 380(30) ns.
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