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The hyperfine structure (hfs) splittings of the metastable 1s2s 3 S 1 state of7Li+ have been measured with combined laser optical pumping and microwave resonance. A lowenergy Li+ ion beam, optically excited by an intersecting laser beam, passed a waveguide where radio frequency transitions were induced. The resulting population transfer among the hfs levels of the3 S 1 was detected via the change in intensity of the fluorescence light from a second crossing region of laser light and ion beam located past the waveguide. The magnetic hfs constantA(7Li+, 1s2s 3S1) was measured and compared with theory. A deviation of the two transition frequenciesν(F=3/2−F=5/2) andν(F=1/2−F=3/2) from the interval rule is due to a depression of theF=3/2 hfs sublevel, caused by mixing of the 23 S 1 and 21 S 0 states via hyperfine interaction. This shift was never observed so far in a two-electron spectrum, because of absence ofI>1/2 isotopes in He, the only two-electron atom investigated spectroscopically with high precision. The size of the shift is in fair agreement with a theoretical estimate.
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Kötz, U., Kowalski, J., Neumann, R. et al. Laser-microwave spectroscopy of lithium ions: 23 S 1 hyperfine structure of7Li+ . Z Physik A 300, 25–30 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01412610
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