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Impact broadening of very high Rb Rydberg levels by Xe

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With an improved experimental set-up we have studied the broadening of Rb Rydberg levels by xenon up to principal quantum numbers as high asn≈100 by means of Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy and the thermionic detection technique. The inealstic part of the collision cross section tends to decrease slowly withn in the range 50≦n≦100 in agreement with theoretical predictions.

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  1. Institut für Experimentalphysik der Universität, Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany

    K. -H. Weber & K. Niemax

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We acknowledge gratefully financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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Weber, K.H., Niemax, K. Impact broadening of very high Rb Rydberg levels by Xe. Z Physik A 312, 339–342 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01414061

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