Infrared laser assisted photoabsorption of Ne atoms

Near-infrared laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium atoms

The ASACUSA (Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) collaboration is currently attempting to observe a laser-induced resonant transition of antiprotonic helium atoms at wavelength of 1154.9 nm. Motivations to observe this transition and a nanosecond near-infrared laser prepared for this work are presented.

Laser cooling of atoms

The concept of radiation-pressure cooling of atoms was independently suggested in 1975 for the case of a gas of neutral atoms by Hänsch and Schawlow, and for atomic ions bound in an electromagnetic trap by Wineland and Dehmelt. While the notion that momentum exchange from a photon moving in the opposite direction could slow an individual atom was well understood, until this time no one had come...

The Mid - Infrared [ S iv ] / [ Ne ii ] versus [ Ne iii ] / [ Ne ii ] Correlation

The mid-infrared ratio [Ne iii]15.6μm/[Ne ii]12.8μm is a strong diagnostic of the ionization state of emission line objects, due to its use of only strong neon emission lines only weakly affected by extinction. However this ratio is not available to ground-based telescopes as only a few spectroscopic windows are available in the MIR. To deal with this problem we aimed to verify if there exists ...

Near-infrared photoabsorption by C60 dianions in a storage ring.

We present a detailed study of the electronic structure and the stability of C(60) dianions in the gas phase. Monoanions were extracted from a plasma source and converted to dianions by electron transfer in a Na vapor cell. The dianions were then stored in an electrostatic ring, and their near-infrared absorption spectrum was measured by observation of laser induced electron detachment. From th...

Kink-Based Path Integral Calculations of Atoms He-Ne