In an atomic beam of Lu, six levels of the configuration 5d 6s 6p in the energy range 18000 to 23000 cm-1 were selectively populated with the light of a pulsed dye laser. Time resolved observation of the recmitted resonance light was used to deduce the lifetimes of the excited levels.
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Kwiatkowski et al. (1980) studied this question.
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