Volume 142, 2009

Continuous guided beams of slow and internally cold polar molecules

Abstract

We describe the combination of buffer-gas cooling with electrostatic velocity filtering to produce a high-flux continuous guided beam of internally cold and slow polar molecules. In a previous paper (L.D. van Buuren et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2009, 102, 033001) we presented results on density and state purity for guided beams of ammonia and formaldehyde using an optimized set-up. Here we describe in more detail the technical aspects of the cryogenic source, its operation, and the optimization experiments that we performed to obtain the best performance. The versatility of the source is demonstrated by the production of guided beams of different molecular species.

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Nov 2008
Accepted
05 Jan 2009
First published
26 May 2009

Faraday Discuss., 2009,142, 203-220

Continuous guided beams of slow and internally cold polar molecules

C. Sommer, L. D. van Buuren, M. Motsch, S. Pohle, J. Bayerl, P. W. H. Pinkse and G. Rempe, Faraday Discuss., 2009, 142, 203 DOI: 10.1039/B819726A

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