Subkelvin Cooling NO Molecules via "Billiard-like" Collisions with Argon

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5652, 2003, Pages 1940-1943

  Elioff, Michael S ^a   Valentini, James J ^b   Chandler, David W ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; COOLING; MOLECULAR BEAMS; SCATTERING;

KINEMATIC COLLAPSE;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

ARGON; NITRIC OXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; COOLING; NITRIC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC COLLISION; COLD MOLECULE; COOLING; ENERGY; KINEMATICS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0347504722     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090679     Document Type: Article

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