Experimental Ni II Oscillator Strengths for Transitions from 3d84d to 3d84p Levels Measured Using High-resolution Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
Abstract
We present the first experimentally measured oscillator strengths for Ni II 3d84d - 3d84p transitions. High-resolution Fourier transform spectra were recorded of Ni-He hollow cathode lamps, and intensity calibrated using deuterium standard lamps to determine relative intensities of Ni II emission lines between 200 and 395 nm. Branching fractions were determined for observed lines from 35 3d84d upper levels in total, and account for at least 95% of the predicted transition probability for 31 of these levels, with sufficient completeness to give reliable branching fractions. Combining our measured branching fractions with four experimental and 27 theoretically calculated energy level lifetimes provided absolute oscillator strengths for 174 lines, for which no previous experimental values exist. We compare the results with three sets of previously published theoretical calculations, illustrating the improvement of laboratory measurements for these atomic data. Please note: The transition probability datasets are withheld from this pre-print to ensure that only the peer-reviewed, definitive versions are released. This approach prevents the propagation of duplicate or inconsistent data across widely used atomic databases and modelling frameworks.
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BibTeX
@misc{chen2026experimental,
title = {{Experimental Ni II Oscillator Strengths for Transitions from $3d^84d$ to $3d^84p$ Levels Measured Using High-resolution Fourier Transform Spectroscopy}},
author = {Ruijie Chen and Christian P. Clear and Gillian Nave and Juliet C. Pickering},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.12726},
eprint = {2609.12726},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12726},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Experimental Ni II Oscillator Strengths for Transitions from 3d^84d to 3d^84p Levels Measured Using High-resolution Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
AU - Ruijie Chen
AU - Christian P. Clear
AU - Gillian Nave
AU - Juliet C. Pickering
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.12726
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12726
AB - We present the first experimentally measured oscillator strengths for Ni II 3d^84d - 3d^84p transitions. High-resolution Fourier transform spectra were recorded of Ni-He hollow cathode lamps, and intensity calibrated using deuterium standard lamps to determine relative intensities of Ni II emission lines between 200 and 395 nm. Branching fractions were determined for observed lines from 35 3d^84d upper levels in total, and account for at least 95% of the predicted transition probability for 31 of these levels, with sufficient completeness to give reliable branching fractions. Combining our measured branching fractions with four experimental and 27 theoretically calculated energy level lifetimes provided absolute oscillator strengths for 174 lines, for which no previous experimental values exist. We compare the results with three sets of previously published theoretical calculations, illustrating the improvement of laboratory measurements for these atomic data. Please note: The transition probability datasets are withheld from this pre-print to ensure that only the peer-reviewed, definitive versions are released. This approach prevents the propagation of duplicate or inconsistent data across widely used atomic databases and modelling frameworks.
ER -