On the Prospects for Laser Cooling of TlF
Atomic Physics
2013-05-30 v1 Chemical Physics
Abstract
We measure the upper state lifetime and two ratios of vibrational branching fractions f_{v'v} on the B^{3}\Pi_{1}(v') - X^{1}\Sigma^{+}(v) transition of TlF. We find the B state lifetime to be 99(9) ns. We also determine that the off-diagonal vibrational decays are highly suppressed: f_{01}/f_{00} < 2x10^{-4} and f_{02}/f_{00} = 1.10(6)%, in excellent agreement with their predicted values of f_{01}/f_{00} < 8x10^{-4} and f_{02}/f_{00} = 1.0(2)% based on Franck-Condon factors calculated using Morse and RKR potentials. The implications of these results for the possible laser cooling of TlF and fundamental symmetries experiments are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.1110.3748,
title = {On the Prospects for Laser Cooling of TlF},
author = {L. R. Hunter and S. K. Peck and A. S. Greenspon and S. Saad Alam and D. DeMille},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3748},
year = {2013}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures