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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 13: Posters 3: Cold Molecules, Helium Nano Droplets, and Experimental Techniques

MO 13.6: Poster

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 16:30–18:30, Spree-Palais

Supersonic molecular beams for high-precision measurements using a traveling-wave decelerator — •sreekanth chirayath mathavan, joost e van den berg, corine meinema, janko nauta, ronnie hoekstra, leo huisman, imko smid, and steven hoekstra — university of groningen, groningen, the netherlands

We are building an experimental setup to perform high-precision experiments to test fundamental physics with cold molecules. We combine supersonic expansion with traveling-wave deceleration and laser cooling to create dense, translationally and internally cold molecular samples in the same quantum state. We started our experiments with the SrF molecule, which we already showed can be decelerated, and is laser coolable, which enhances its sensitivity towards high-precision experiments. On this poster, we present our work on the creation of an intense supersonic beam of SrF.