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Cold reactive collisions between laser-cooled ions and velocity-selected neutral molecules
- Abstract:
- We report a new experimental method to study reactive ion-molecule collisions at very low temperatures. A source of laser-cooled ions in a linear Paul trap has been combined with a quadrapole-guide velocity selector to investigate the reaction of Ca+ with CH3F at collision energies Ē_coll/ k_B ≥ 1 K with single-particle sensitivity. The technique represents a general approach to study reactive collisions between ions and polar molecules over a wide temperature range down to the cold regime.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.043203
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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- Publisher:
- American Physical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Physical Review Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 100
- Issue:
- 4
- Article number:
- 043203
- Publication date:
- 2008-02-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1079-7114
- ISSN:
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0031-9007
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:2911
- Deposit date:
- 2009-08-17
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- Copyright holder:
- American Physical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Notes:
- Citation: Willitsch, S. et al. (2008). 'Cold reactive collisions between laser-cooled ions and velocity-selected neutral molecules', Physical Review Letters, 100(4), 043203. [Available at http://prl.aps.org/].
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