POSSIBILITIES FOR FRANCIUM SPECTROSCOPY IN A LIGHT TRAP

被引:10
作者
BEHR, JA
CAHN, SB
DUTTA, SB
GORLITZ, A
GHOSH, A
GWINNER, G
OROZCO, LA
SPROUSE, GD
XU, F
机构
[1] Department of Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook, 11794-3800, NY
来源
HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS | 1993年 / 81卷 / 1-4期
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D O I
10.1007/BF00567264
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学]; O56 [分子物理学、原子物理学];
学科分类号
070203 ; 070304 ; 081704 ; 1406 ;
摘要
An experimental program is under way to capture neutral francium atoms in a magneto-optic trap. Production and transport of the radioactive Fr atoms near to the trapping region have been tested, with a steady state of 10(7) atoms. If one hundred atoms are captured from the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution into a magneto-optic trap, this will be a sufficient number for spectroscopy of the unknown excited states. These measurements would then open the path to investigations of parity-violating transitions in francium.
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页数:6
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