Magnetic trapping of hydrogen after multistage Zeeman deceleration.
We report the first experimental realization of magnetic trapping of a sample of cold radicals following multistage Zeeman deceleration of a pulsed supersonic beam. H atoms seeded in a supersonic expansion of Kr have been decelerated from an initial velocity of 520 m/s to 100 m/s in a 12-stage Zeeman decelerator and loaded into a magnetic quadrupole trap by rapidly switching the fields of the trap solenoids.
Hogan
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Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, CH-8093, Switzerland.
Wiederkehr
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Schmutz
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Merkt
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