Stark deceleration and trapping of oh radicals

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2006, Pages 159-190

  Van De Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y T ^a   Vanhaecke, Nicolas ^a   Meijer, Gerard ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cold molecules

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTROSTATICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

COLD MOLECULES; ELECTROSTATIC TRAP; MOLECULAR BEAM PULSE; OH RADICALS;

ELECTRON TRAPS;

EID: 33646725382     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.55.091602.094337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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