Inelastic collisions of optically trapped metastable calcium atoms

Purbasha Halder, Hannes Winter, Andreas Hemmerich

We study binary collisions of metastable calcium atoms (${}^{40}$Ca) in an optical dipole trap. Collisions between ${}^3$P${}_0$-atoms and between ${}^3$P${}_0$ and ${}^1$S${}_0$-ato…