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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST) was successfully launched on June 11 2008. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), which detects gamma rays from 20 MeV to…
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We realize and model a Rydberg-state atom interferometer for measurement of phase and intensity of radio-frequency (RF) electromagnetic waves. A phase reference is supplied to the atoms via a modulated laser beam, enabling atomic…
Cross-beam energy transfer (CBET) between two lasers is investigated through theoretical analysis and two-dimensional hybrid simulations over sub-nanosecond to nanosecond timescales and millimeter spatial scales. A finite…
A significant number of confined energetic electrons have been observed outside the Last Closed Flux Surface (LCFS) of the solenoid-free, ECRH sustained plasmas in the EXL-50 spherical torus. Several diagnostics have been applied, for the…
We present ion-by-ion cooling efficiencies for low-density gas. We use Cloudy (ver. 08.00) to estimate the cooling efficiencies for each ion of the first 30 elements (H-Zn) individually. We present results for gas temperatures between 1e4…
We demonstrate broadband laser cooling of atomic ions in an rf trap using ultrafast pulses from a modelocked laser. The temperature of a single ion is measured by observing the size of a time-averaged image of the ion in the known harmonic…
The molecular ion ThF$^+$ is the species to be used in the next generation of search for the electron's Electric Dipole Moment (eEDM) at JILA. The measurement requires creating molecular ions in the eEDM sensitive state, the rovibronic…
Differential elastic electron scattering cross sections of trichlorofluoromethane $\mathrm{(CCl_3F)}$ were measured for the first time over a broad energy range spanning 30 eV to 800 eV in the angular range of 20$^\circ$ to 150$^\circ$. The…
In the field of fundamental plasma waves, direct observation of electron-acoustic wave (EAW) propagation in laboratory plasmas remains a challenging problem, mainly because of heavy damping. In the MaPLE device, the wave is observed and…
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