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barnflakes
Oct25-10, 03:00 PM
Why is there no allowed transition from the 2s^2 S_{\frac{1}{2}} state to the 2p^2 P_{\frac{3}{2}} state in the attached image? It seems to fulfill the selection rules \Delta l = \pm 1 and \Delta j = 0, \pm 1. This is for electric dipole transitions by the way.

DrDu
Oct26-10, 02:15 AM
I guess that only optical transitions are shown in the diagram while this transition would be somewhere in the radio frequency region.