Low Energy (Anti)atoms for Precision Tests of Basic Physics

Magnetic Trapping and Zeeman Relaxation of NH (X Σ−3)

“…When done in the presence of a magnetic trapping field this can cause the molecules to fall into the conservative trap potential. The first successful trapping of polar molecules was accomplished in our group with buffer-gas loading of CaH, and we know of several other laboratories using buffer-gas loading of magnetic traps [22,23,24]. Other molecules (VO [25], CaF [26] and CrH [27]) have also been studied with buffer-gas loading but in all those cases there were loss mechanisms that prevented trapping for extended periods of time.…”