Selective laser excitation of Cd atoms from the collisionally excited metastable 5s5p 3P0 and 3P2 states was used to investigate the 5sns 3S1 states (n=6-8) and 5snd 3D3,2,1 states (n=5-8). The lifetimes of these states were measured with the method of delayed coincidences.
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