Towards sympathetic cooling of large molecules: Cold collisions between benzene and rare gas atoms

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Barletta, P ^a   Tennyson, J ^a   Barker, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD COLLISIONS; COLLISIONAL COOLING; CROSS SECTION; INELASTIC PROCESS; LARGE CROSS-SECTIONS; MICROKELVIN; OPTICAL TRAP; RARE GAS ATOMS; SYMPATHETIC COOLING; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

ATOMS; BENZENE; COOLING; HELIUM; NEON;

INERT GASES;

EID: 67549099277     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/5/055029     Document Type: Article

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