title: Continuous loading of a conservative potential trap from an atomic beam.
abstract: We demonstrate the fast accumulation of 52Cr atoms in a conservative potential from a guided atomic beam. Without laser cooling on a cycling transition, a dissipative step involving optical pumping allows us to load atoms at a rate of 2×10(7)  s(-1) in the trap. Within less than 100 ms we reach the collisionally dense regime, from which we produce a Bose-Einstein condensate with subsequent evaporative cooling. This constitutes a new approach to degeneracy where Bose-Einstein condensation can be reached without a closed cycling transition, provided that a slow beam of particles can be produced.
authors: 5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
authors: Markus
authors: M
authors: Falkenau
authors: Valentin V
authors: VV
authors: Volchkov
authors: Jahn
authors: J
authors: Rührig
authors: Axel
authors: A
authors: Griesmaier
authors: Tilman
authors: T
authors: Pfau