Paschen-Back effect
[ pah-shuh n-bahk ]
/ ˈpɑ ʃənˈbɑk /
noun Physics.
a splitting of spectral lines observed when the source of a radiation is subjected to a strong magnetic field, caused when the vectors associated with the spin and orbital angular momentum exhibit individual rather than common precession.
Compare
Zeeman effect.
Origin of Paschen-Back effect
1920–25; named after Friedrich
Paschen (1865–1947) and Ernst
Back (1881–1959), German physicists