Abstract
Emission from high-lying excited states of Zn can be observed when ground state Zn atoms are excited to the 4 3P 1 state by the frequency doubled output of a pulsed dye laser. The observed states are 4 1P 1, 4 1D 2, 5 3S 1, 4 3D J and 6 3S 1. From the analysis of the temporal profiles of the emission, these highly excited species have been shown to be formed in energy pooling collisions between Zn (4 3P J ) atoms. In contrast to the formation of highly excited Cd atoms from Cd (5 3P 0,1), none of these excited species are formed through metastable states. The overall cross section for the energy pooling has been determined to be (110 ± 30) × 10 −16 cm −2 at 650 K.
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