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Applied Physics B

Structure in the angular dependence of optical suppression of photoassociative ionization collisions within an optically cooled and collimated sodium atom beam

W. DeGraffenreid, Jaime Ramirez-Serrano, Y.-M. Liu, Reginaldo de Jesus Napolitano, A. Rosenbaum, J. Weiner

Published Dec 1, 2000• 3 citations
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DOI
10.1007/s003400000472

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