with precisions of 0.23% and 0.27%, respectively. The results are important to the
interpretation of the next generation of parity nonconservation experiments in atomic cesium.
A diode laser was used to selectively excite a fast beam of neutral cesium atoms. The decay
in flight of the fluorescence was observed with photon-counting detectors. The lifetime
results are 34.934±0.094 ns for the 6 p 2 P 1/2 state and 30.499±0.070 ns for the 6 p 2 P 3/2 …