Creating ultracold molecules by collisions with ultracold rare gas atoms in an optical trap

P. Barletta, J. Tennyson, P. F. Barker

We study collisions of para-H${}_2$ with five rare gas atomic species (He, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe) over the range from 1 K to 1 $\mu$ K and evaluate the feasibility of sympathetic cooling H…