Measurement of the branching fractions and lifetime of the $5D_{5/2}$ level of Ba${}^{+}$

Carolyn Auchter, Thomas W. Noel, Matthew R. Hoffman +2

We present a measurement of the branching fractions for decay from the long-lived $5D_{5/2}$ level in \Ba. The branching fraction for decay into the $6S_{1/2}$ ground state was fou…