Long-term trapping of cold polar molecules

Dominik Haas, Claudio von Planta, Thomas Kierspel +2

We demonstrate the long-term ($<$ 1 minute) trapping of Stark-decelerated OH radicals in their $X{}^2{\Pi }_{3/2}(\nu =0,J=3/2,M_J=3/2,f)$ state in a permanent magnetic trap. T…