Production and deceleration of a pulsed beam of metastable NH ($a^1\Delta$) radicals

Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Irena Labazan, Steven Hoekstra +2

We report on the production of a pulsed molecular beam of metastable NH ($a^1\Delta$) radicals and present first results on the Stark deceleration of the NH ($a^1\Delta ,J=2,M\Omega =-4$) radic…