STUDY OF HIGH-LYING EXCITED STATES OF RARE-EARTH ELEMENT Dy BY LASER RESONANCE IONIZATION SPECTROSCOPY

This paper describes the investigation of high-excited states of Dy. which includes the measurement of high Rydberg states and autoionizing states, by means of laser resonance ionization spectroscopy (LRIS). Two high Rydberg series (n>40), 4f¹⁰(⁵I₈) 6sns and 4f¹⁰(⁵I₈) 6snd, have been obtained by exciting the state of 4f¹⁰(⁵I₈) 6s6p (³P⁰₂) ⁵I⁰₈ using two-step laser excitation-electric field ionization method. With the data obtained, we determined the first ionization potential of Dy. It is 47901.7±0.6 cm^-1, that is. about one order more accurate than the results given in the literature. Using the same technique, we found 97 autoionizing states by exciting the state of 4f⁹5d6s(⁷H⁰₇).