SPIN-POLARIZED HYDROGEN IN A HIGH-FIELD TRAP - TOWARDS A 2-COMPONENT BOSE-GAS

We have loaded spin-polarized hydrogen (SPH) into a magnetostatic lose trap with central fields as high as 1 T and at two different temperat ures, 0.25 and 0.4 K, on the way to create a gas of SPH with two disti nguishable Bose component. We have measured the magnetic dipole decay rate constant of SPH at these high fields and found good agreement wit h theory. A measurement technique that allows determination of the abs olute number of atoms was developed.