TC. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: COLD MOLECULES/CLUSTERS

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008 - 8:30am

Room: 1000 MCPHERSON LAB

Chair: FREDERIC MERKT, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

TC01 INVITED TALK 30min8:30

COLD MOLECULES AND SPECTROSCOPY: A CHALLENGE AND NEW CHANCES.

E. TIEMANN, H. KNÖCKEL AND C. LISDAT, Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany; A. PASHOV, Department of Physics, Sofia University, 5 James Bourchier boulevard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria; M. TAMANIS, R. FERBER, Department of Physics and Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy, University of Latvia, 19 Rainis boulevard, Riga LV-1586, Latvia.

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TC02			15min9:05

SOLVING THE RADIAL SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION AT ENERGIES EXTREMELY CLOSE TO
DISSOCIATION: BOUND STATES AND SCATTERING LENGTHS .

VLADIMIR V. MESHKOV AND ANDREY V. STOLYAROV, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia; ROBERT J. LE ROY, Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.

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TC03			10min9:22

A PATH TO V=0 GROUND STATE COLD CESIUM MOLECULES.

N. BOULOUFA AND O. DULIEU, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, bât 505, Univ Paris-Sud, 91400 Orsay, France; J. G. DANZL, E. HALLER, M. GUSTAVSSON, M. J. MARK, R. HART, H. C. NÄGERL AND H. RITSCH, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstra beta e 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

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TC04			15min9:34

WEAKLY BOUND MOLECULES. ANALYSIS BY THE LU-FANO METHOD COUPLED TO THE LEROY-BERNSTEIN MODEL .

LAURENCE PRUVOST AND HAIKEL JELASSI AND BRUNO VIARIS DE LESEGNO, Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS II, bat 505 univ Paris Sud, 91 405 Orsay. France..

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TC05			15min9:51

PROGRESS TOWARDS FORMATION AND SPECTROSCOPY OF ULTRACOLD GROUND-STATE ⁸⁵Rb₂ MOLECULES IN AN OPTICAL TRAP.

H. K. PECHKIS, M. BELLOS, J. RAYMAJUMDER, R. CAROLLO, E. E. EYLER, P. L. GOULD AND W. C. STWALLEY, Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046.

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TC06			15min10:08

BOUND-BOUND SPECTROSCOPY OF ULTRACOLD KRb MOLECULES.

KANG-KUEN NI, S. OSPELKAUS, M. MIRANDA, A. PE'ER, B. NEYENHUIS, J. J. ZIRBEL, J. YE, D. S. JIN, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder; S. KOTOCHIGOVA, Physics Department, Temple University; P. JULIENNE, JQI, NIST and University of Maryland.

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INTERMISSION

TC07			10min10:40

THE GROUND STATE OF THE LiRb MOLECULE.

A. PASHOV, M. IVANOVA, Department of Physics, Sofia University, 5 J. Bourchier blvd, 1164 Sofia; A. STEIN, H. KNÖCKEL, E. TIEMANN, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Quantenoptik, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany.

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TC08			15min10:52

THE IONIZATION ENERGY OF Be₂, AND SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE (1)³ Sigma

_u⁺, (2)³

_g, and (3)³

_g STATES.

JEREMY M. MERRITT, ALEX L. KALEDIN, MICHAEL C. HEAVEN, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322; VLADIMIR E. BONDYBEY, 418 Vista Quinta, Newport Beach, CA 92660.

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TC09			15min11:09

PROBING THE EVOLUTION OF BONDING IN BERYLLIUM CLUSTERS; SPECTROSCOPIC IDENTIFICATION OF Be₄.

JEREMY M. MERRITT, MICHAEL C. HEAVEN, Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322; VLADIMIR E. BONDYBEY, 418 Vista Quinta, Newport Beach, CA 92660.

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TC10			15min11:26

ULTRAVIOLET AND INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF HELICAL PEPTIDES AND THEIR WATER COMPLEXES.

JAIME A. STEARNS, MONIA GUIDI, CAROLINE SEAIBY, ANNETTE SVENDSEN, OLEG V. BOYARKIN AND THOMAS R. RIZZO, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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TC11			15min11:43

STRUCTURES OF SMALL GOLD CLUSTER IONS.

D. SCHOOSS, A. LECHTKEN, C. NEISS, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany; M. JOHANSSON, Aarhus University, Lundbeck Foundation Center for Theoretical Chemistry, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark; F. FURCHE AND M. M. KAPPES, Universität Karlsruhe, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.

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