Abstract
The hyperfine structure of the $6snd^{1}D_{2}$ ($10<~n<~50$) Rydberg states of barium has been measured and analyzed in terms of singlet-triplet mixing. A dispersionlike resonant behavior of the mixing coefficient $\ensuremath{\Omega}$ was observed for barium and strontium in the vicinity of doubly excited configurations. In barium strong disagreement with multichannel-quantum-defect-theory wave functions was found. The present results are compared with the spin polarization and anisotropy of photoelectrons.
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