Question: 1) [60 points] Consider a one-electron atom in a 2Dy, state which decays by electric dipole radiation to a pair of states which are members

 1) [60 points] Consider a one-electron atom in a 2Dy, state
which decays by electric dipole radiation to a pair of states which

1) [60 points] Consider a one-electron atom in a 2Dy, state which decays by electric dipole radiation to a pair of states which are members of the same fine structure multiplet, the 2Py, and 2P, , states. (a) [15 points] The atom is in a small magnetic field B. Compute the pattern of spectral lines you expect to see in both transitions including the separations of the components due to Zeeman splitting, and the relative intensities of the members of each multiplet. The D P splitting is bigger than anything else, so the k3 phase space factor is the same for all transitions. (b) [25 points] Now compute the relative intensities of the two lines in the absence of Zeeman splitting. This is longer than you might think at first reading. The reason is, that while you can compute the relative intensities in the individual multiplets in (a) using only a table of Clebsch- Gordon coefficients, the reduced matrix elements for the two sets of transitions (to 2P3/, and 2P ),) are not equal to each other although they do have many common components. In addition to the table of Clebsch-Gordon coefficients, the three-Y, formula will be useful in finding their ratio. But most of all, this will tax your organizational skills, so try to block out the calculation before you start computing. This is a long problem - try your best to get through it

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