| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S71866/01 |
| Title: |
Deceleration of cold molecules |
| Principal Investigator: |
Hinds, Professor EA |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 February 2004 |
Ends: |
31 January 2007 |
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70,911
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This project will support a PhD student working in our lab on deceleration of cold molecules. We will build an alternate gradient electrostatic decelerator which will be suitable for a wide variety of molecular species. Very recently a Dutch group has produced a cold supersonic pulsed beam of NI-13 molecules, which were decelerated electrostatically to rest and held in a trap. These molecules are light and strongly polar and were in an excited state. The method requires some development before it can be used for ground state molecules, for heavy molecules or for light molecules with smaller dipole moments. We propose here to carry out that development and to demonstrate that a broad range of molecules can be decelerated to zero velocity. The project is important because this is a key step towards producing trapped ultracold molecular gases, which are rich in new physics. As part of the research we will be making bright monoenergetic beams of molecules in a fully defined quantum state of rotation and vibration, which will be a significant new resource for collision physics and spectroscopy.
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