Rydberg and autoionizing states of tellurium studied by laser resonance ionization spectroscopy

Abstract

Multistep laser-resonance-ionization spectroscopy of tellurium (Te) has been performed at TRIUMF's off-line laser ion source test stand. Six clean and regular even-parity Rydberg series $5{p}^{3}$ $({^{4}S}_{3/2}^{\ensuremath{\circ}})$ $np\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}^{3}P_{0,1,2}$, $np\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}^{5}P_{1,2}$, and $nf\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}^{3}F_{2}/^{5}F_{1,2}$ were observed. The ionization potential of Te was extracted from the measured series as $72669.114{(56)}_{\mathrm{stat}}{(45)}_{\mathrm{sys}}\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}{\mathrm{cm}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. Excited from two different intermediate levels, seven odd-parity autoionization Rydberg series converging to the $5{s}^{2}5{p}^{3}$ $({^{2}D}_{3/2}^{\ensuremath{\circ}})$ core state of Te were obtained.