Collisions in a dual-species magneto-optical trap of molecules and atoms
S. Jurgilas,
A. Chakraborty,
C. J. H. Rich
et al.
Abstract:We study inelastic collisions between CaF molecules and 87 Rb atoms in a dual-species magneto-optical trap. The presence of atoms increases the loss rate of molecules from the trap. By measuring the loss rates and density distributions, we determine a collisional loss rate coefficient k 2 = (1.43 ± 0.29) × 10 −10 cm 3 /s at a temperature of 2.4 mK. We show that this is not substantially changed by lightinduced collisions or by varying the populations of excited-state atoms and molecules. The observed loss rate… Show more
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