Study of even-parity Rydberg and autoionizing states of lutetium by laser resonance ionization spectroscopy

Abstract

Multi-step laser resonance ionization spectroscopy of lutetium (Lu) has been performed at TRIUMF's off-line laser ion source test stand. The even-parity Rydberg series $6s^{2}nd$ ${}^2{D}_{3/2}$, $6s^{2}nd$ ${}^2{D}_{5/2}$ and $6s^{2}ns$ ${}^2{S}_{1/2}$ were observed converging to the 6s${}^2$ ionization potential. The experimental results has been compared to previous work. 51 levels of Rydberg series $6s^{2}nd$ ${}^2{D}_{5/2}$ and 52 levels of Rydberg series $6s^{2}ns$ ${}^2{S}_{1/2}$ were reported new. Additionally six even-parity autoionization (AI) series converging to Lu ionic states $5d6s$ ${}^3{D}_1$ and $5d6s$ ${}^3{D}_2$ were observed. The level energies of these AI states were measured. The configurations of the AI states were assigned by relativistic multichannel theory (RMCT) within the framework of multichannel quantum defect theory (MQDT).

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