Cold collisions ofin a magneto-optical trap
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 59 (2) , 1216-1222
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.59.1216
Abstract
We present measurements of cold collision processes in an alkaline-earth species. Collisions of pairs in a magneto-optic trap are found to be dominated by very-long-range excitation to the nonradiating state of We find good agreement between measured loss rate coefficients and a modified form of the semiclassical model that includes retardation effects that allow excitation to metastable molecular states.
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