Abstract
It is shown how the results of a recent experiment by Jiang, Zuo, Vušković, and Bederson [Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 915 (1992)], who investigated low-energy electron scattering from laser-excited polarized sodium atoms in the initial (3p) P (F=3, =3) state, can be related to the inelastic 3S→3P transition involving initially unpolarized electron and atom beams. Hence, this method can provide an independent check of the traditional electron-scattering experiment with unpolarized beams.
- Received 17 December 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.48.836
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