Ytterbium Experiment (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ytterbium Experiment

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An atomic beam of ytterbium is generated in the oven at left, then passed through a chamber with magnetic and electric fields arranged at right angles -- the magnetic field colinear with the atomic beam, and the electric field colinear with a laser beam that excites a "forbidden" electron-energy transition. Weak interactions between electron and nucleus contribute to the forbidden transition.

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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