Hummon, MatthewCampbell, WesleyLu, Hsin-ITsikata, EdemWang, YihuaDoyle, John2012-06-122008Hummon, 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).1094-1622http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8870259We 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\(^{-3}\).en-USatomic physicsJournal Article2012-06-1210.1103/PhysRevA.78.050702