We present an apparatus for the study of an ultracold gaseous atomic mixture of Cs and Rb. The mixture is prepared using a double magneto-optical trap (MOT) system in which a two-species pyramid MOT acts as a source of cold atoms for a ‘science’ MOT. Measurements of the interspecies trap loss rate coefficients βRbCs and βCsRb in the science MOT are reported. After the initial MOT phase, atoms i...

BACKGROUND The multiple object tracking (MOT) paradigm is a cognitive task that requires parallel tracking of several identical, moving objects following nongoal-directed, arbitrary motion trajectories. AIMS The current study aimed to investigate the employment of prediction processes during MOT. As an indicator for the involvement of prediction processes, we targeted the human premotor corte...

A magneto-optical trap (MOT) was developed in order to cool and trap potassium atoms. This required construction of a mechanism for tuning and locking the frequency of a trap and repump laser in order to maintain the correct energy transitions needed to ensure trapping of the atoms. Once the lasers’ frequencies were locked, the beams were combined and amplified and can now be combined with lase...

In this paper we present a robust tracker to solve the multiple object tracking (MOT) problem, under the framework of tracking-by-detection. As the first contribution, we innovatively combine single object tracking (SOT) algorithms with multiple object tracking algorithms, and our results show that SOT is a general way to strongly reduce the number of false negatives, regardless of the quality ...