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DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3791
Title Laser trapping of short-lived radioactive isotopes
Creator/Author Lu, Z. ; Bowers, C. ; Freedman, S.J. ; Fujikawa, B.K. ; Mortara, J.L. ; Shang, S. (Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)) ; Coulter, K.P. ; Young, L. (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States))
Publication Date1994 Jun 13
OSTI IdentifierOSTI ID: 7041853
DOE Contract NumberAC03-76SF00098; W-31109-ENG-38
Other Number(s)Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; CODEN: PRLTAO
Resource TypeJournal Article
Resource RelationJournal Name: Physical Review Letters; (United States); Journal Volume: 72:24
Subject74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; SODIUM 21; MOMENTUM COOLING; TRAPPING; ACCELERATION; ATOMIC BEAMS; BETA DECAY; CYCLOTRONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUORESCENCE; LASER RADIATION; MAGNETO-OPTICAL EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES; TUNING; ZEEMAN EFFECT; ACCELERATORS; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; BEAM COOLING; BEAMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DATA; DECAY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; LUMINESCENCE; NUCLEAR DECAY; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; RADIATIONS; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; SODIUM ISOTOPES; STOCHASTIC COOLING
Description/AbstractWe describe an experiment which demonstrates the feasibility of trapping significant quantities of short-lived radioactive atoms with laser light. A thermal beam of 22.5 sec half-life [sup 21]Na atoms was produced on-line at the LBL 88[prime][prime] Cyclotron. After decelerating the beam using a Zeeman-tuned slowing technique we stored about 4[times]10[sup 3] [sup 21]Na atoms in a magneto-optical trap. The number of trapped atoms is large enough to be used in experimental studies of the beta decay of [sup 21]Na. The basic method can be adapted for other rare isotopes.
Country of PublicationUnited States
LanguageEnglish
FormatMedium: X; Size: Pages: 3791-3794
System Entry Date2008 Aug 14

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