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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 34: Poster 1

Q 34.52: Poster

Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 16:30–19:00, Poster.I+II

Atomic scattering of metastable neon atoms — •Christian Cop and Reinhold Walser — Institute for Applied Physics, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Currently, many experiments are directed towards Bose-Einstein-Condensations of novel elements besides the alkalies: noble gases [1], rare-earth-gases and composite molecules. In the group of G. Birkl at the University of Darmstadt, the prospects for cooling metastable neon atoms (Ne*) to degeneracy are investigated experimentally [2]. Already the condensation of hydrogen (H) as well as metastable helium (He*) were affected by Penning ionization. Therefore it is also of crucial importance to investigate the collision properties of Ne*-atoms and asses the ratio of good to bad collisions. We have developed a numerical code for multichannel scattering and present recent results.

[1] W. Vassen, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, M. Leduc, D. Boiron, C. I. Westbrook, A. Truscott, K. Baldwin, G. Birkl, P. Cancio, M. Trippenbach, arXiv:1110.1361v1, (To be published in Rev. Mod. Phys.)
[2] P. Spoden, M. Zinner, N. Herschbach, W. van Drunen, W. Ertmer, G. Birkl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223201 (2005)