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View SchemaDeceleration and electrostatic trapping of OH radicals
| Authors | Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Paul H. M. Smeets, Nicolas Vanhaecke, Rienk T. Jongma, Gerard Meijer |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0407116 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0407116 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.023004 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 023004 (2005) |
Abstract
A pulsed beam of ground state OH radicals is slowed down using a Stark decelerator and is subsequently loaded into an electrostatic trap. Characterization of the molecular beam production, deceleration and trap loading process is performed via laser induced fluorescence detection inside the quadrupole trap. Depending on details of the trap loading sequence, typically $10^5$ OH ($X^2\Pi_{3/2}, J=3/2$) radicals are trapped at a density of around $10^7$ cm$^{-3}$ and at temperatures in the 50-500 mK range. The 1/e trap lifetime is around 1.0 second.
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"abstract": "A pulsed beam of ground state OH radicals is slowed down using a Stark\ndecelerator and is subsequently loaded into an electrostatic trap.\nCharacterization of the molecular beam production, deceleration and trap\nloading process is performed via laser induced fluorescence detection inside\nthe quadrupole trap. Depending on details of the trap loading sequence,\ntypically $10^5$ OH ($X^2\\Pi_{3/2}, J=3/2$) radicals are trapped at a density\nof around $10^7$ cm$^{-3}$ and at temperatures in the 50-500 mK range. The 1/e\ntrap lifetime is around 1.0 second.",
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