  We observe EIT in a V-system in a thermal rubidium-87 vapor in the hyperfine
Paschen-Back regime, realized with a 0.6 T axial magnetic field. In this regime
energy levels are no longer degenerate and EIT features from different initial
states are distinct. We compare our results to a model using the time-dependent
Lindblad master equation, and having averaged over a distribution of
interaction times, see good qualitative agreement for a range of pump Rabi
frequencies. Excited state decay into both ground states is shown to play a
prominent role in the generation of the transparency feature, which arises
mainly due to transfer of population into the ground state not coupled by the
probe beam.
