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We observe light-induced frequency shifts in one-color photoassociative spectra of magnetically trapped $^4$He$^*$ atoms in the metastable $2^3S_1$ state. A pair of ultracold spin-polarized $2^3S_1$ helium atoms is excited into a molecular…

We have measured the frequency splitting between the $(2S, F=1/2)$ and $(2S, F=3/2)$ hyperfine sublevels in atomic deuterium by an optical differential method based on two-photon Doppler-free spectroscopy on a cold atomic beam. The result…

The work to be described falls into three parts: (1) The computer-controlled CW spectrometer was designed to supplement the Manchester pulsed microwave spectrometer in situations where rapid nuclear relaxation makes spin-echo spectroscopy…

The h_c(1P1) state of charmonium has been observed in the reaction \psi(2S) -> \pi0 h_c -> (\gamma\gamma)(\gamma\eta_c) using 3.08 million \psi(2S) decays recorded in the CLEO detector. Data have been analyzed both for the inclusive…

Using microwave detected, microwave-optical double resonance, we have measured the homogeneous linewidths of individual rovibrational transitions in the \~A state of NH3, NH2D, NHD2, and ND3. We have used this excited state spectroscopic…

We report on hyperfine-resolved laser spectroscopy of the A$^2\Pi \leftarrow $X$^2\Sigma^+$ transition of MgF, relevant for laser cooling. We recorded 25 rotational transitions with an absolute accuracy of better than 20 MHz, assigned 56…

Accurate $EF{}^1\Sigma^+_g-X{}^1\Sigma^+_g$ transition energies in molecular hydrogen were determined for transitions originating from levels with highly-excited vibrational quantum number, $v=11$, in the ground electronic state.…

Structural and electronic properties of the alpha- and gamma-phases of cerium sesquisulfide, Ce2S3, are examined by first-principles calculations using the GGA+U extension of density functional theory. The strongly correlated f-electrons of…

The $A^1\Sigma^+_u$ - $X^1\Sigma^+_g$ UV spectrum of Mg$_2$ has been investigated with high resolution employing Fourier-transform spectroscopy and laser excitation. Computer simulation and fit of line positions to the overlapping…

To study the high-transition dense-gas tracers and their relationships to the star formation of the inner $\sim$ 2 kpc circumnuclear region of NGC253, we present HCN $J=4-3$ and HCO$^+ J=4-3$ maps obtained with the James Clerk Maxwell…

Ultracold polar and magnetic ${}^{23}$Na${}^6$Li molecules in the rovibrational ground state of the lowest triplet $a^3\Sigma^+$ electronic state have been recently produced. Here, we calculate the electronic and rovibrational structure of…

Advances in laser spectroscopy of superheavy ($Z>100$) elements enabled determination of the nuclear moments of the heaviest nuclei, which requires high-precision atomic calculations of the relevant hyperfine structure (HFS) constants.…

We report the measurement of the 1$^{1}\Sigma\longrightarrow$ 2$^{1}\Sigma$ transition of CaH$^+$ by resonance-enhanced photodissociation of CaH$^+$ that is co-trapped with laser-cooled Ca$^+$ . We observe four resonances that we assign to…

Missing mass spectroscopy with the $(e,e^{\prime}K^{+})$ reaction was performed at Jefferson Laboratory's Hall C for the neutron rich $\Lambda$ hypernucleus $^{9}_{\Lambda}{\rm Li}$. The ground state energy was obtained to be…

Two-photon UV-photolysis of hydrogen sulfide molecules is applied to produce hydrogen molecules in highly excited vibrational levels in the \X\ electronic ground state, up to the dissociation energy and into the quasibound region.…

We have investigated energies, magnetic dipole hyperfine structure constants ($A_{hyf}$) and electric dipole (E1) matrix elements of a number of low-lying states of the triply ionized tin (Sn$^{3+}$) by employing relativistic…

Ammonia is one of the most widely observed molecules in space, and many observations are able to resolve the hyperfine structure due to the electric quadrupole moment of the nitrogen nucleus. The observed spectra often display anomalies in…

We study in detail the mechanisms causing dephasing of hyperfine coherences of cesium atoms confined by a far off-resonant standing wave optical dipole trap [S. Kuhr et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 213002 (2003)]. Using Ramsey spectroscopy and…

Rovibrational quantum states in the $X^1\Sigma_g^+$ electronic ground state of H$_2$ are prepared in the $v=13$ vibrational level up to its highest bound rotational level $J=7$, and in the highest bound vibrational level $v=14$ (for $J=1$)…

This paper discusses the first observation of stimulated magnetic resonance transitions between the hyperfine levels of trapped ground state atomic antihydrogen, confirming its presence in the ALPHA apparatus. Our observations show that…