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Spin exchange rate constant for collisions of metastable helium atoms with rubidium atoms

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The spin exchange rate constant C se in the He(23S1)-Rb(52S1/2) system has been measured for the first time in experiments on the optical orientation of metastable helium atoms in the presence of rubidium atoms. In the temperature interval T = 293–348 K, this value is C se = (1.8 ± 0.4) × 10−9 cm3 s−1. The chemiionization rate constant, which has been simultaneously measured in collisions of these particles, is C ci = (3.1 ± 0.6) × 10−9 cm3 s−1.

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Original Russian Text © S.P. Dmitriev, N.A. Dovator, V.A. Kartoshkin, 2008, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 34, No. 16, pp. 22–29.

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Dmitriev, S.P., Dovator, N.A. & Kartoshkin, V.A. Spin exchange rate constant for collisions of metastable helium atoms with rubidium atoms. Tech. Phys. Lett. 34, 693–695 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785008080208

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