TF. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: COLD MOLECULES/CLUSTERS

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2008 - 1:30pm

Room: 160 MATH ANNEX

Chair: EDWARD EYLER, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

TF01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

CHEMICAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATIONS OF ULTRACOLD IONS IN ION TRAPS.

STEFAN WILLITSCH, Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom.

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TF02			15min2:05

PROPERTIES OF TRAPPED Ca⁺ IONS AT SUB-KELVIN TEMPERATURES.

JAMES M. OLDHAM, ALEXANDER D. GINGELL, MARTIN T. BELL, TIMOTHY P. SOFTLEY, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom OX1 3TA; AND STEFAN WILLITSCH, Department of Chemistry, University College London, Gordon Street, London, United Kingdom WC1H 0AJ.

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TF03			15min2:22

SYMPATHETICAL LASER COOLING OF MOLECULAR IONS TO THE µK REGIME.

C. RICARDO VITERI AND KENNETH R. BROWN, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Computational Science and Engineering Division, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.

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TF04			15min2:39

A 3D ELECTROSTATIC TRAP FOR RYDBERG ATOMS AND MOLECULES.

STEPHEN HOGAN AND FRÉDÉRIC MERKT, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

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TF05			15min2:56

MULTISTAGE ZEEMAN DECELERATION: STOPPING AND REFLECTING COLD BEAMS OF HYDROGEN.

A. W. WIEDERKEHR, S. D. HOGAN, H. SCHMUTZ, M. ANDRIST, B. LAMBILLOTTE AND F. MERKT, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

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TF06			15min3:13

THE MOLECULAR COILGUN AND SINGLE PHOTON COOLING: TOWARDS ULTRA-COLD MOLECULES.

EDVARDAS NAREVICIUS, ADAM LIBSON, CHRISTIAN G. PARTHEY, ISAAC CHAVEZ, JULIA NAREVICIUS, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1081, USA; UZI EVEN, Sackler School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; MARK G. RAIZEN, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1081, USA.

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INTERMISSION

TF07			15min3:45

COLLISION EXPERIEMNTS UTILIZING TRAPPED NEUTRAL OH MOLECULES.

DAJUN WANG, BRIAN C. SAWYER, BENJAMIN K. STUHL, ENG HIANG YEO, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA; BENJAMIN L. LEV, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA; JUN YE, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA.

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TF08			15min4:02

LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS WITH ELECTROSTATICALLY TRAPPED COLD MOLECULES.

STEVEN HOEKSTRA, JOOP J. GILIJAMSE, SEBASTIAAN Y. T. VAN DE MEERAKKER AND GERARD MEIJER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.

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TF09			15min4:19

DECELERATION, TRAPPING AND ACCUMULATION OF NH MOLECULES.

STEVEN HOEKSTRA, JOOP J. GILIJAMSE, SEBASTIAAN Y. T. VAN DE MEERAKKER AND GERARD MEIJER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.

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TF10			15min4:36

ALTERNATING GRADIENT FOCUSING AND DECELERATION OF LARGE MOLECULES.

FRANK FILSINGER, KIRSTIN WOHLFART, FABIAN GRÄTZ, GERARD MEIJER AND JOCHEN KÜPPER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.

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TF11			15min4:53

PROSPECTS FOR PRECISION MEASUREMENTS ON AMMONIA MOLECULES IN A FOUNTAIN.

HENDRICK L. BETHLEM, Laser Centre Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081, NL-1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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TF12			15min5:10

MAGNETIC TRAPPING OF ³ Sigma

MOLECULES AND TIME-DOMAIN MEASUREMENT OF VIBRATIONAL LIFETIMES.

WESLEY C. CAMPBELL, MATTHEW T. HUMMON, HSIN-I LU, LAURENS D. VAN BUUREN, EDEM TSIKATA AND JOHN M. DOYLE, Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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