Experimental beam-foil decay curves for the 4s-4p, 4p-4d, 4d-4f, and the 4p-5s transitions in Zn I1 are compared to decay curves synthesized from transition probabilities calculated in the numerical Coulomb approximation and either measured initial level populations or population models. Good agreement exists between experimental curves and those based on the measured initial level populations for the 5s, 4d and 4f levels while certain deviations are noted for the 4p term. None of the applied population models reproduce all experimental curves satisfyingly well. In addition, lifetimes are determined experimentally for 7 terms in Zn 11, and good agreement with the numerical Coulomb approximation lifetimes isgenerally found except for some p terms. Beam-foil excitationmechanism results for zincare presented and compared to previous results from light projectiles.N j = S ( h / k ) / K ( X j k ) A j k
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