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View SchemaHeteronuclear ionizing collisions between laser-cooled metastable helium atoms
| Authors | J. M. McNamara, R. J. W. Stas, W. Hogervorst, W. Vassen |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0701194 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701194 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062715 |
Abstract
We have investigated cold ionizing heteronuclear collisions in dilute mixtures of metastable (2 3S1) 3He and 4He atoms, extending our previous work on the analogous homonuclear collisions [R. J. W. Stas et al., PRA 73, 032713 (2006)]. A simple theoretical model of such collisions enables us to calculate the heteronuclear ionization rate coefficient, for our quasi-unpolarized gas, in the absence of resonant light (T = 1.2 mK): K34(th) = 2.4*10^-10 cm^3/s. This calculation is supported by a measurement of K34 using magneto-optically trapped mixtures containing about 1*10^8 atoms of each species, K34(exp) = 2.5(8)*10^-10 cm^3/s. Theory and experiment show good agreement.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062715",
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