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Collinear ion beam laser spectroscopy has been utilized in the ion storage ring CRYRING in order to measure lifetimes of metastable states in singly charged ions. The laser light has been used for selective probing of the population decay of individual fine structure or hyperfine structure states. With the use of a mechanical shutter, time resolved studies could be performed with millisecond resolution. In another experiment, the cw laser light was used to optically pump stored ions from the ground state into a specific metastable state. With most of the stored ions in the metastable state, direct observation of the decay of the forbidden transition from the metastable state to the ground state could be observed passively. Measurements of metastable lifetimes in Ca+, Sr+, Xe+ and Eu+ will be discussed.
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Mannervik, S. Lifetime measurements of metastable states in CRYRING. Hyperfine Interactions 127, 237–245 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012651803145
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