“paschen”

We have one entry that includes the term paschen.

Paschen-Back effect

noun

: a limiting stage of the Zeeman effect which occurs as the magnetic field causing it is greatly increased and in which the extremely fine structure pattern after going through more or less complicated anomalous stages again approaches a normal triplet character


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