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The European Physical Journal D

Characterization of an oriented metastable atom source based on a magnetic hexapole

D. Watanabe, Hiroshi OHOYAMA, Takashi Matsumura, Toshio Kasai

Published Feb 7, 2006• 15 citations
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DOI
10.1140/epjd/e2006-00028-0

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