Traveling-wave deceleration of SrF molecules
Atomic Physics
2014-06-23 v1 Chemical Physics
Abstract
We report on the production, deceleration and detection of a SrF molecular beam. The molecules are captured from a supersonic expansion and are decelerated in the X state. We demonstrate the removal of up to 40% of the kinetic energy with a 2 meter long modular traveling-wave decelerator. Our results demonstrate a crucial step towards the preparation of ultracold gases of heavy diatomic molecules for precision spectroscopy.
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@article{arxiv.1402.2800,
title = {Traveling-wave deceleration of SrF molecules},
author = {J. E. van den Berg and S. C. Mathavan and C. Meinema and J. Nauta and T. H. Nijbroek and K. Jungmann and H. L. Bethlem and S. Hoekstra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.2800},
year = {2014}
}