Production and deceleration of a pulsed beam of metastable NH (a1Δ) radicals

2005/12/31 by Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Irena Labazan, I. Labazan +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/39/19/s18

published as J. Phys. B 39, S1077-S1084 (2006) · 11 pages, 4 figures, v2: fixed author name for web-abstract, no changes to manuscript

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Abstract

We report on the production of a pulsed molecular beam of metastable NH (a(1)Delta) radicals and present first results on the Stark deceleration of the NH (a(1)Delta, J = 2, M Omega = - 4) radicals from 550 m s(-1) to 330 m s-1. The decelerated molecules are excited on the spin-forbidden A(3)Pi

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