Collision kernels from velocity-selective optical pumping with magnetic depolarization

We experimentally demonstrate how magnetic depolarization of velocity-selective optical pumping can be used to single out the collisional cusp kernel best describing spin- and velocity-relaxing collisions between potassium atoms and low-pressure helium. The range of pressures and transverse fields u...

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Main Authors: Bhamre, T., Kominis, I. K., McGuyer, B. H., Happer, W., Marsland, Robert Alvin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88737
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3866-0381