FURTHER WORK ON THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A BRIGHT METASTABLE ATOM SOURCE


J G Lambourne, M K Odling-Smee, A T Cousins and P Hammond

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL,
UK

A bright metastable atom source with a low ground state atom density has been
designed for use in electron scattering experiments.  The metastable atom number
density during a beam pulse is estimated to be 10^7 metastable atoms per cm^3 in
argon

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