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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 13: Quantum Gases (Bosons) III

Q 13.6: Talk

Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 11:45–12:00, Q-H10

Bose Einstein Condensate and Cold Atom Laboratory (BECCAL) — •Lisa Wörner¹, Christian Schubert^2,3, Jens Grosse⁴, and The BECCAL Collaboration^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11} — ¹DLR-QT — ²DLR-SI — ³LUH — ⁴ZARM — ⁵DLR-SC — ⁶FBH — ⁷HUB — ⁸JGU — ⁹OHB — ¹⁰UHH — ¹¹UUlm

BECCAL (Bose Einstein Condensate and Cold Atom Laboratory) is a joint mission between NASA and DLR. The payload will be installed to the international space station (ISS) to enable research on cold and condensed atoms in the unique microgravity environment.
To create a design baseline, six main areas of research for BECCAL were defined by the science definition team: Atom Interferometry, Coherent Atom Optics, Scalar Bose Einstein Condensates, Spinor Bose Einstein Condensates and Quantum Gas Mixtures, Strongly Interacting Gases and Molecules, and Quantum Information.
With those areas as a baseline, BECCAL offers researchers several possibilities to work with cold and condensed atoms using magnetic and optical fields. BECCAL operates with Rubidium and Potassium, also enabling the study of mixtures.
In this talk, we will give an overview over the payload and the possibilities offered by the mission.