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Calculations and measurements are presented of the increase in F-bar=1 ground-state population as a function of incident laser intensity in optically pumped sodium. The calculations involve numerical integration of a multilevel version of the optical Bloch
Jabez J. McClelland, Michael H. Kelley, Robert Celotta
Measurements are presented of spin asymmetries for superelastic scattering of 10-eV spin-polarized electrons from the excited Na(3P 3/2) state created by linearly polarized laser optical pumping. Asymmetries as large as 16% are observed in scattering from
Michael H. Kelley, W Rogers, Robert Celotta, S Mielczarek
The spin dependence of the electron-impact ionization of Na has been measured up to 2 eV above threshold with high precision to search for the existence of characteristic oscillations which would support the Coulomb-dipole theory of threshold ionization
Robert Celotta, Daniel T. Pierce, Michael H. Kelley, W Rogers
The electron-sodium system is an excellent prototype of non-relativistic electron scattering from a quasi-one-electron atomic target, and is tractable both experimentally and theoretically. Recently, this system has been studied in a series of
Using a fixed frequency argon ion laser, we have studied the energy spectra of electron photodetached from OH -, NH 2 -, NH -, SO 2 -, and S 2 -. We determined the following electron affinities: E A(OH) = 1.829 +0.010 -0.014 eV, E A(NH 2) = 0.779plus or