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Deceleration and trapping of ammonia molecules in a traveling wave decelerator

Atomic Physics 2015-06-16 v2 Chemical Physics

Abstract

We have recently demonstrated static trapping of ammonia isotopologues in a decelerator that consists of a series of ring-shaped electrodes to which oscillating high voltages are applied [Quintero-P\'{e}rez et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 133003 (2013)]. In this paper we provide further details on this traveling wave decelerator and present new experimental data that illustrate the control over molecules that it offers. We analyze the performance of our setup under different deceleration conditions and demonstrate phase-space manipulation of the trapped molecular sample.

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@article{arxiv.1306.0397,
  title  = {Deceleration and trapping of ammonia molecules in a traveling wave decelerator},
  author = {Paul Jansen and Marina Quintero-Pérez and Thomas E. Wall and Joost E. van den Berg and Steven Hoekstra and Hendrick L. Bethlem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0397},
  year   = {2015}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1301.2113