Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Atomique (associé au CNRS no. 19), Université de Caen, 14032, Caen cedex, France
Abstract:
A C.W. multi-mode dye laser is used to obtain by optical pumping an orientation of the 2p5 3s3P0 (F = 3/2) state of 21Ne. A magnetic resonance experiment leads to the measurement of the g factor g (3P0) = 3.027 (8) × 10−4 to be compared with the theoretical prediction (3.025(6) × 10−4). One obtains also the metastability exchange cross section σ(3P0) = 18.4 ± 4 Å2 for collisions between metastable (3P0) Ne atoms and ground state Ne atoms. This result is compared with other measurements and theoretical evaluation.