Zinner, Martin; Spoden, Peter; Kraemer, Tobias; Birkl, Gerhard; Ertmer, Wolfgang
(American Physical Society, 2003)
The lifetime of the metastable 3P2 state of neon has been determined as 14.73(14)s [decay rate 0.06790(64)s−1] by measuring the decay in fluorescence of an ensemble of 20Ne atoms trapped in a magneto-optical trap (MOT). ...