Can Nitric Oxide be Evaporatively Cooled in its Ground State?
Atomic Physics
2017-10-25 v1
Abstract
Cold collisions of NO molecules in the ground state, subject to electric and magnetic fields, are investigated. It is found that elastic collision rates significantly exceed state-changing inelastic rates only at temperatures above 0.5 K at laboratory strength fields. It is found, however, that in very large fields V/cm, inelastic rates can be somewhat suppressed. Magnetic fields have negligible influence on scattering for this nearly non-magnetic state.
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@article{arxiv.1708.02875,
title = {Can Nitric Oxide be Evaporatively Cooled in its Ground State?},
author = {Lucie D. Augustovičová and John L. Bohn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02875},
year = {2017}
}