Multistage Zeeman deceleration of hydrogen atoms

Nicolas Vanhaecke, U. Thomas Meier, M. Andrist, Beat H. Meier, F. Merkt

Physical Review A · 2007 · 218 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

The deceleration of beams of neutral particles possessing an electron spin with time-dependent inhomogeneous magnetic fields is demonstrated experimentally. Half the kinetic energy of a velocity-selected part of a pulsed supersonic beam of hydrogen atoms in the ground state is removed using six pulsed magnetic field stages.

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