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Scattering of Stark-decelerated OH radicals with rare-gas atoms
Ludwig Scharfenberg, Koos B. Gubbels, Moritz Kirste +4
We present a combined experimental and theoretical study on the rotationally inelastic scattering of OH () radicals with the collision partners He, Ne, Ar,…
Low-energy inelastic collisions of OH radicals with He atoms and D molecules
Moritz Kirste, Ludwig Scharfenberg, Jacek Kłos +4
We present an experimental study on the rotational inelastic scattering of OH () radicals with He and D at collision energies between 100 and 500 cm$^{-1}…
Operation of a Stark decelerator with optimum acceptance
Ludwig Scharfenberg, Henrik Haak, Gerard Meijer +1
With a Stark decelerator, beams of neutral polar molecules can be accelerated, guided at a constant velocity, or decelerated. The effectiveness of this process is determined by the…
Electrostatic trapping of metastable NH molecules
Steven Hoekstra, Markus Metsala, Peter C. Zieger +4
We report on the Stark deceleration and electrostatic trapping of NH () radicals. In the trap, the molecules are excited on the spin-forbidden …
Optical pumping of trapped neutral molecules by blackbody radiation
Steven Hoekstra, Joop J. Gilijamse, Boris Sartakov +4
Optical pumping by blackbody radiation is a feature shared by all polar molecules and fundamentally limits the time that these molecules can be kept in a single quantum state in a…