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CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 374, Issue 5-6, Pages 667-675Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(03)00812-1
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The deflection and deceleration of neutral hydrogen molecules in the presence of an inhomogeneous electric field is demonstrated. The molecules are laser-excited in a molecular beam to selected Rydberg-Stark states in the field of an electric dipole for a fixed period, and their trajectories are monitored using ion imaging and time-of-flight measurement. The Rydberg states (n approximate to 17) show remarkably long lifetimes (> 100 mus) and these results point to a novel method for trapping and cooling non-polar, non-magnetic molecules. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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