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Journal of Physics Conference Series

A dynamic ion-atom hybrid trap for high-resolution cold-collision studies

Alexander Dörfler, Pascal Eberle, Humberto da Silva, Maurice Raoult, Olivier Dulieu, Stefan Willitsch

Published Sep 7, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

To push the frontier of studying ion-atom cold collisions, we present a new technique to precisely control collision energies in a hybrid trap setup.
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/635/9/092048

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