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A bright metastable atom source at 80 K

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Lu, W
Hoogerland, M. D
Milic, D
Baldwin, Kenneth
Buckman, Stephen

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American Institute of Physics (AIP)

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We describe a high flux source of cold (80 K) metastable helium atoms. The source employs a direct current nozzle discharge which produces in excess of 10¹⁵ atoms/steradian/s. Liquid nitrogen cooling of the discharge source yields atomic velocities below 900 ms⁻¹. Such a source has practical applications for experiments concerned with laser cooling and trapping of metastable helium atoms.

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/15966

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Review of Scientific Instruments

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10.1063/1.1372169

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