Electrostatic trapping of metastable NH molecules

Steven Hoekstra, Markus Metsala, Peter C. Zieger +4

We report on the Stark deceleration and electrostatic trapping of ${}^{14}$NH ($a^1\Delta$) radicals. In the trap, the molecules are excited on the spin-forbidden $A^3\Pi \leftarrow a^1\Delta$…