Elastic slowing of supersonic beams

Max F. Riedel

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations

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Approved by Supervising Committee: For my parents. Thank you for your love and support. Acknowledgments First of all, I would like to thank my supervisor, Prof. Mark Raizen. Mark, you allowed me great freedom in my work and put a lot of trust in me. Nevertheless, you were always there with good advice and great ideas when I needed you. I am very proud that I was given the opportunity to work in your group. Thank you for supporting me during my time in Austin and beyond. I am equally thankful to my fellow group members and friends Adam Libson, Dr. Ed Narevicius and Christian Parthey. Everything we accomplished during the last one and a half years was a group effort and they are the main reason I am writing this thesis using the pronoun “we”. Adam, although you sometimes “unnerved ” us with your constant fear of leaks or fatal rotor destruction, I wouldn’t have wanted to work with anybody else than you on this project. You often foresaw problems we would have easily

DOI: 10.15781/t23d51

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