Strong Modification of Radiative Transition Rates due to a Breit-Interaction-Induced Avoided Crossing

Zhimin Hu, Gang Xiong, Xiang Gao +11

We present the observations of x-rays emitted from the $1s2s^{2}2p_{1/2}2p_{3/2}$ inner shell excited state of B-like W and Bi ions. The relative transition rates are obtained for…