Vibrational quenching of the electronic ground state in ThO in cold collisions with [superscript 3]He

We measure the ratio γ of the momentum transfer-to-vibrational quenching cross section for molecular thorium monoxide (ThO) [X([superscript 1]Σ[superscript +]), v = 1, J = 0] in collisions with atomic helium between 800 mK and 2.4 K. We find γ ∼ 10[superscript 4]. We also observe indirect evidence f...

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Main Authors: Au, Yat Shan (Contributor), Connolly, Colin B. (Contributor), Ketterle, Wolfgang (Contributor), Doyle, John M. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2014-09-05T16:35:16Z.
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520 |a We measure the ratio γ of the momentum transfer-to-vibrational quenching cross section for molecular thorium monoxide (ThO) [X([superscript 1]Σ[superscript +]), v = 1, J = 0] in collisions with atomic helium between 800 mK and 2.4 K. We find γ ∼ 10[superscript 4]. We also observe indirect evidence for ThO-He van der Waals complex formation, which has been predicted by theory [Tscherbul, Sayfutyarova, Buchachenko, and Dalgarno, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 144301 (2011)], and in conjunction, we determine the three-body recombination rate constant at 2.4 K, Γ[subscript 3] = 8 ± 2 × 10[superscript −33] cm[superscript 6] s[superscript −1]. 
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