SPECTROSCOPY OF BUFFER-GAS COOLED VANADIUM MONOXIDE IN A MAGNETIC TRAPPING FIELD

Authors
WEINSTEIN JD DECARVALHO R AMAR K BOCA A ODOM BC FRIEDRICH B DOYLE JM
Citation
Jd. Weinstein et al., SPECTROSCOPY OF BUFFER-GAS COOLED VANADIUM MONOXIDE IN A MAGNETIC TRAPPING FIELD, The Journal of chemical physics, 109(7), 1998, pp. 2656-2661
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
The Journal of chemical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00219606
Volume
109
Issue
7
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2656 - 2661
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-9606(1998)109:7<2656:SOBCVM>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Spectroscopy of buffer-gas cooled vanadium monoxide (VO) is performed in the presence of a magnetic trapping field and at low field. VO is c reated via laser ablation. A helium buffer gas, chilled by a dilution refrigerator, cools 10(12) VO molecules to 1.8+/-0.2 K within 10 ms. T he measured rotational temperature is 1.5+/-0.8 K. Spatially resolved Zeeman spectra allow the magnetic broadening terms of several optical transitions to be determined. The density of VO decays with a characte ristic time of 60 ms, thus precluding the observation of trapping. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.