Optische übergangswahrscheinlichkeiten der Konfigurationen 3p 5 4s–3p 5 5p des Argon I

Optical transition probabilities of the configurations 3p ⁵ 4s–3p ⁵ 5p of Argon I were determined in a wall-stabilized arc plasma and compared with the theoretical results for different types of spin-orbit-coupling. Mostly the differences in the results forLS-jl- and intermediate-coupling are small compared with the deviations of the experimental values. Therefore it may be presumed that in some cases not the assumption of an approximately valid coupling scheme is responsible for the errors of the theoretical transition probabilities, but the other quantum mechanical approximation processes.