Prospects in radioactive atom trapping: {sup 21}Na as an example
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States); and others
Recent demonstrations that laser trapping and cooling techniques are applicable to exotic short-lived radioactive atoms are providing new opportunities for better measurements of important fundamental constants and more sensitive searches for physics beyond the presently established Standard Model of the fundamental interactions. The application of laser techniques to control the spatial extent and degree of polarization of essentially massless radioactive sources in beta-decay experiments should allow studies of the symmetries of the weak interactions with unprecedented precision. Experiments with rare atoms having particular sensitivities to subtle weak-interaction modifications to atomic structure should be practical with laser manipulation techniques. We review some of the prospects in this emerging area of experimental research and we describe an example of an ongoing experiment to study the beta decay of the short-lived isotope {sup 21}Na.
- OSTI ID:
- 560292
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970443-; TRN: 97:005895-0238
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 213. national meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA (United States), 13-17 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of 213th ACS national meeting; PB: 2904 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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