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          |  |  A Study of the Helium 31D-->21P-->11S Cascade with Algebraic Computing
 
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 | Organization: | The University of Western Australia | 
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 | Computer Physics Communications | 
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          |  |  Coincidence intensities of the cascade decay 31D-->21P-->11S of helium excited by electron impact are computed using the symbolic manipulation package Mathematica. The formulation requires the calculation of a few thousand Clebsch--Gordan coefficients and rotation matrices, which would be extremely tedious to carry out by hand. A scheme is presented as an illustrative example of a lengthy and cumbersome calculation handled by Mathematica with ease.
 
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