Session B26: Focus Session: Photophysics of Cold Molecules II

11:15 AM–2:15 PM, Monday, March 10, 2008
Morial Convention Center - 218

Sponsoring Unit: DCP
Chair: Roland Wester, University of Freiburg

Abstract: B26.00007 : Kinetics of Cold Molecule Production in ``Kinematic'' Cooling

1:15 PM–1:27 PM

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Authors:

  Jeffrey Kay
    (Sandia National Laboratories)

  Kevin Strecker
    (Sandia National Laboratories)

  David Chandler
    (Sandia National Laboratories)

``Kinematic'' cooling is a general technique by which a vast array of molecules can be translationally cooled using crossed atomic and molecular beams. The success of the technique relies primarily on the existence of an approximate mass degeneracy between the molecule to be cooled and its atomic (or molecular) collision partner. Here, we discuss factors that affect the efficiency of cold molecule production by this method, as well as schemes that may allow tunability of the velocity and temperature of the cold molecules on a fine scale.