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The quenching of hydrogenic metastables is formulated as a near-resonant photon-scattering problem, and a complete analysis of the polarization and angular distribution of the emitted radiation is presented. The contribution from np states with $n>2$ is calculated, and an alternative method of measuring the Lamb shift is suggested.
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Drake et al. (1973) studied this question.
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