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The optical orientation of the angular momenta of alkali atoms in the presence of a buffer gas (molecular nitrogen) has been studied experimentally. It has been shown that, even at a low concentration of molecular nitrogen in the cell, the excitation of 133Cs atoms from the lower hyperfine level with F = 3, which belongs to the ground 2S1/2 state, results in a larger amplitude of the magnetic resonance than the excitation from the hyperfine level with F = 4. This result has been theoretically explained under the assumption that the spin state of the alkali atomic nucleus does not change at collision with a nitrogen molecule, which is accompanied by a nonradiative transition of the alkali atom from the excited 2P1/2 state to the ground 2S1/2 state.
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Original Russian Text © E.N. Popov, V.A. Bobrikova, S.P. Voskoboinikov, K.A. Barantsev, S.M. Ustinov, A.N. Litvinov, A.K. Vershovskii, S.P. Dmitriev, V.A. Kartoshkin, A.S. Pazgalev, M.V. Petrenko, 2018, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2018, Vol. 108, No. 8, pp. 543–548.
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Popov, E.N., Bobrikova, V.A., Voskoboinikov, S.P. et al. Features of the Formation of the Spin Polarization of an Alkali Metal at the Resolution of Hyperfine Sublevels in the 2S1/2 State. Jetp Lett. 108, 513–518 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364018200122
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