A cold and slow molecular beam

作者：Lu Hsin I^*; Rasmussen Julia; Wright Matthew J; Patterson Dave; Doyle John M

来源：Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 13(42): 18986-18990.

DOI：10.1039/c1cp21206k

Employing a two-stage cryogenic buffer gas cell, we produce a cold, hydrodynamically extracted beam of calcium monohydride molecules with a near effusive velocity distribution. Beam dynamics, thermalization and slowing are studied using laser spectroscopy. The key to this hybrid, effusive-like beam source is a "slowing cell" placed immediately after a hydrodynamic, cryogenic source [Patterson et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2007, 126, 154307]. The resulting CaH beams are created in two regimes. In one regime, a modestly boosted beam has a forward velocity of v(f) = 65 m s(-1), a narrow velocity spread, and a flux of 10(9) molecules per pulse. In the other regime, our slowest beam has a forward velocity of v(f) = 40 m s(-1), a longitudinal temperature of 3.6 K, and a flux of 5 x 10(8) molecules per pulse.

• 出版日期2011