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==Recent Publications==
 
==Recent Publications==
*Intense Atomic and Molecular Beams via Neon Buffer Gas Cooling, D. Patterson, J. Rasmussen, and J. M. Doyle, to be published by New Journal of Physics 2009).
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* [[Media:New_journal_of_physics_11_2009.pdf |Intense atomic and molecular beams via neon buffer-gas cooling]], D. Patterson, J. Rasmussen, and J.M. Doyle. New Journal of Physics 11, 055018 (2009).
*Bright, Guided Molecular Beam with Hydrodynamic Enhancement, D. Patterson and J.M. Doyle. J of Chem Phys 126, 154307 (2007).
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*[http://jsbach.harvard.edu/resources/bufferprints/oxygen_beam.pdf Bright, Guided Molecular Beam with Hydrodynamic Enhancement], D. Patterson and J.M. Doyle. J of Chem Phys 126, 154307 (2007).

Revision as of 07:48, 7 August 2009

Cold Beam

People

  • David Patterson
  • Julia Rasmussen

Overview

Picture of apparatus

We realize a continuous, high flux, cold molecular or atomic beam using buffer gas cooling techniques. Recent efforts have focused on creating such a source by mixing hot vapor (up to 600K) with cold neon buffer gas (15K) before emitting the mixture in a high flux beam. Neon buffer gas produces a beam with a forward velocity distribution and low energy tail comparable to much colder helium based beams. Such a beam may be a good starting point for laser cooling, cold collision studies, and trapping . Recent efforts have focused on magnetic trapping of potassium, but previous work realized cold beams of molecular oxygen and deuterated ammonia molecules.

Recent Publications