Laser trapping of short-lived radioactive isotopes
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters; (United States)
- Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
We 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.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098; W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 7041853
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 72:24; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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74 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
664200* - Spectra of Atoms & Molecules & their Interactions with Photons- (1992-)
663210 - Ground-State Radioactivity- (1992-)
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
664200* - Spectra of Atoms & Molecules & their Interactions with Photons- (1992-)
663210 - Ground-State Radioactivity- (1992-)