Associative ionization in a dilute ultracold ${}^7$Li gas probed with a hybrid trap

N. Joshi, Vaibhav Mahendrakar, M. Niranjan +6

The formation of Li${}_2^{+}$ and subsequently Li${}^{+}$ ions, during the excitation of ${}^7$Li atoms to the $3S_{1/2}$ state in a ${}^7$Li magneto optical trap (MOT), is probed in an ion-at…