Darmstadt 2008 – scientific programme

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A: Fachverband Atomphysik

A 26: Posters: BECs, ultracold gases and plasmas

A 26.9: Poster

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 16:30–18:30, Poster C3

An ion in a sea of ultracold atoms — •Stefan Schmid, Sascha Hoinka, Albert Frisch, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag — Universitaet Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25 / IV, 6020 Innsbruck

We report on the status of our new hybrid ion/atom trap experiment where a single trapped Ba⁺ ion will be immersed into a Bose-Einstein condensate of ⁸⁷Rb atoms. First experiments will focus on the investigation of the interaction between the ion and the sea of ultracold neutral atoms. We plan to study elastic as well as inelastic scattering processes, e.g. charge transfer and molecule formation. We describe in detail our setup which will feature an optical transport of a Rb BEC into a linear Paul trap, where the Barium ion is stored.