Progress towards trapping {sup 82}Rb in an optical trap
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
The efficient coupling of an optical trap to a mass separator is being developed to undertake high-precision electroweak interaction measurements. The use of an ion implantation and subsequent heated foil release method is being pursued as a suitable way of introducing radioactive samples into the ultra high vacuum region of the optical trap without gas loading. The batchwise trapping and cooling of one million {sup 82}Rb atoms is envisioned with overall efficiencies of 1% or more. The cloud of cold radioactive atoms ({approximately}1 mm in diameter) will than be spin polarized and transferred to a second optical trap, repolarized, and loaded in a magnetic trap in which a beta-asymmetry measurement will be performed. The latest developments towards undertaking this experiment will be presented.
- OSTI ID:
- 560294
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970443--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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