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Phys. Rev. A 72, 064501 (2005) [4 pages]

Stark-modulation spectroscopy of the B(1)[3Π] state of PbO

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D. Kawall*, Y. V. Gurevich, C. Cheung, S. Bickman, Y. Jiang, and D. DeMille
Department of Physics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208120, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120 USA

Received 21 September 2005; published 27 December 2005

We report detailed spectroscopic measurements of the X(0)[1Σ+](v=0)→B(1)[3Π](v=5) transition in PbO. Using a Stark-modulated laser absorption technique, we have measured the hyperfine constant of 207PbO in the B(1) state, as well as the B(1)(v=5) rotational constant, X-B isotope shifts, etc. The hyperfine constant of the B(1) state is of interest as a benchmark for calculations of PbO electronic structure related to experiments to search for the electric dipole moment of the electron.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.064501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.064501
PACS:
33.15.−e, 33.20.Kf, 14.60.Cd

*Present addresses: Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 and RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Upton, NY 11973.

 
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