Paschen-Back Effect of Hyperfine Structure and Polarization of Resonance Radiation: Sodium

Authors

N. P. Heydenburg, State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Preliminary measurements on the polarization of resonance radiation of the second doublet of sodium when a magnetic field is applied with its direction parallel to the incident light beam shows that the polarization changes from a value of about 10 per cent in zero magnetic field to a value of 34 per cent in fields less than 100 gausses. In order that a Paschen-Back effect of the hyperfine structure of the 5²P _{1/2 , 3/2} levels should occur in field strengths of this order of magnitude the hyperfine separation constant for these levels must be of the order.0005 x 10^-3 cm^-1.

Publication Date

1933

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

40

Issue

1

First Page

149

Last Page

149

Copyright

©1933 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Heydenburg, N. P. (1933) "Paschen-Back Effect of Hyperfine Structure and Polarization of Resonance Radiation: Sodium," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 40(1), 149-149.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol40/iss1/74