Vol. 36, Issue 4, pp. 535-541 (2006)

Abstract

A study of the hyperfine structure of mixed multipole line 646.7 nm of Bi I is reported. A special computer program was designed to obtain the predicted contour of the hyperfine structure of the line for different values of the electric-quadrupole admixture. By variation of free parameters, describing the line shape and the electric-quadrupole admixture D, defined as the ratio of the magnetic-dipole and electric-quadrupole decay rates D = A^E2/(A^M1 + A^E2), the calculated profiles were fitted into the recorded spectra. The D value of the best fit found is (17.8 ± 1.0)%. Our result is compared with recent theories and other experiments.