Session B4: Photoassociation and Cold Collisions

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Chair: Paul Julienne, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nittany Lion Inn - Ballroom AB

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:00AM - 11:12AM

 B4.00001: Rate Saturation of Photoassociation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
J. Hitchcock , M. Junker , D. Dries , C. Welford , Y.P. Chen , T.A. Corcovilos , R.G. Hulet

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:12AM - 11:24AM

 B4.00002: Giant formation rates of ultracold molecules via Feshbach optimized photoassociation
Philippe Pellegrini , Mark Gacesa , Robin C\^ot\'e

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:24AM - 11:36AM

 B4.00003: Feshbach-optimized photoassociation in LiRb
Marko Gacesa , Philippe Pellegrini , Robin C\^ot\'e

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:36AM - 11:48AM

 B4.00004: Light Assisted Collisional Losses in a $^{85/87}$Rb Optical Trap
Anthony Gorges , Michael DeAngelo , Nicholas Bingham , Mathew Hamilton , Jacob Roberts

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
11:48AM - 12:00PM

 B4.00005: Control of Ultracold Collisions with Nonlinear Frequency Chirps
J.A. Pechkis , J.L. Carini , C.E. Rogers III , P.L. Gould

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:00PM - 12:12PM

 B4.00006: Spectral Phase Effects on Ultrafast Coherent Control
H.U. Jang , M.L. Trachy , G. Veshapidze , C.W. Fehrenbach , B.D. DePaola

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:12PM - 12:24PM

 B4.00007: Ultracold collisions between Rb and excited NH
Steven Wrathmall , Edmund Meyer , Daniel Haxton , Heather Lewandowski , Chris Greene

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:24PM - 12:36PM

 B4.00008: Photoassociation of $^{171}$Yb atoms
Iris Reichenbach , Ivan Deutsch

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:36PM - 12:48PM

 B4.00009: Spectroscopy of $^{1}$S$_{0 }$-- $^{3}$P$_{1} \quad ^{88}$Sr Atomic Transition in a 1.06 $\mu $m Optical Dipole Trap
Y.N. Martinez de Escobar , P.G. Mickelson , A.J. Traverso , T.C. Killian

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:48PM - 1:00PM

 B4.00010: Repumping of ultracold strontium atoms using the $^3$P$_2$ - $^3$D$_2$ transition
P.G. Mickelson , Y.N. Martinez de Escobar , A.J. Traverso , T.C. Killian

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
1:00PM - 1:12PM

 B4.00011: Fine-structure changing collisions in atomic titanium
Mei-Ju Lu , Kyle Hardman , Jonathan Weinstein

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