Production of translationally cold barium monohalide ions
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We have produced sympathetically cooled barium monohalide ions BaX+ (X = F, Cl, Br) by reacting trapped, laser-cooled Ba+ ions with room-temperature gas-phase neutral halogen-containing molecules. Reaction rates for two of these (SF6 and CH3Cl) have been measured and were found to be in agreement with classical models. BaX+ ions are promising candidates for cooling to the rovibrational ground state, and our method presents a straightforward way to produce these polar molecular ions.
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