Heteronuclear cold molecules laser spectroscopy

Microwave Dielectric Properties and Microstructures of CuO-Modified (1-x)(Mg0.95Co0.05)TiO3–xCaTiO3 Ceramic System

“…Another interesting inter-species cold atomic mixture is produced by simultaneously cooling and trapping of the alkali metal and metastable state noble gas atoms, such as Rb-Ar* mixture [13,14] or Rb-He* mixture [15]. The large amount of internal energy of the metastable noble gas atoms (several eV) as compared to the low kinetic energy of the laser cooled atoms (∼10 −8 eV) makes it interesting to study inter-species ionizing collisions and excited state reaction products [16][17][18]. The high value of internal energy associated with metastable noble gas (Ng*) atoms in MOT, leads to two-body loss process known as Penning ionization (Ng* + Ng* → Ng + + Ng + e − ) and associative ionization (Ng* + Ng* → Ng 2 + + e − ) which can strongly affect the trap densities and lifetimes.…”