Abstract
Certain core-excited quartet levels in alkali-like atoms and ions, termed quasi-metastable, have slow autoionizing rates and comparable VUV radiative rates.1 This circumstance, desirable for laser transitions, is due to angular momentum and parity selection rules on these quartets and the doublets to which they may couple.
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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