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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 135, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3637037
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- ERC-AdG program [247142-MolChip]
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Carbon monoxide molecules in their electronic, vibrational, and rotational ground state are highly attractive for trapping experiments. The optical or ac electric traps that can be envisioned for these molecules will be very shallow, however, with depths in the sub-milliKelvin range. Here, we outline that the required samples of translationally cold CO (X-1 Sigma(+), nu '' = 0, N '' = 0) molecules can be produced after Stark deceleration of a beam of laser-prepared metastable CO (a(3)Pi(1)) molecules followed by optical transfer of the metastable species to the ground state via perturbed levels in the A(1)Pi state. The optical transfer scheme is experimentally demonstrated and the radiative lifetimes and the electric dipole moments of the intermediate levels are determined. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi : 10.1063/1.3637037]
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