| Title: | Magnetic Trapping of Atomic Nitrogen (\(^{14}\)N) and Cotrapping of NH (\(X\)\(^{3}\)\(\Sigma\) -) |
| Author: |
Hummon, Matthew; Campbell, Wesley; Tsikata, Edem; Doyle, John M.; Wang, Yihua; Lu, Hsin-I
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| Citation: | Hummon, Matthew, Wesley C. Campbell, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Yihua Wang, and John M. Doyle. 2008. Magnetic trapping of atomic nitrogen (\(^{14}N)\) and cotrapping of NH \((X^{3} \Sigma^{-})\). Physical Review A 78(5): 050702(R). |
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| Abstract: | We observe magnetic trapping of atomic nitrogen (\(^{14}\)N) and cotrapping of ground state imidogen (\(^{14}\)NH, \(X\)\(^{3}\)\(\Sigma\) -). Both are loaded directly from a room temperature beam via buffer gas cooling. We trap approximately 1 x 10\(^{11}\) \(^{14}\)N atoms at a peak density of 5 x 10\(^{11}\) cm\(^{-3}\) at 550 mK. The \(12\pm{4} s 1/e\) lifetime of atomic nitrogen in the trap is limited by elastic collisions with the helium buffer gas. Cotrapping of \(^{14}\)N and \(^{14}\)NH is accomplished, with 10\(^{8}\) NH trapped molecules at a peak density of 10\(^{8}\) cm\(^{-3}\). |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.78.050702 |
| Other Sources: | http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1662 |
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