Laser-cooled RaF as a promising candidate to measure molecular parity violation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Isaev, T A ^a   Hoekstra, S ^b   Berger, R ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; COHERENCE TIME; COLD MOLECULES; COOLING TECHNIQUE; DIATOMIC MOLECULES; FRANCK-CONDON; HARTREE-FOCK APPROACH; HIGH-PRECISION; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LASER-COOLED; MOLECULAR PARITY VIOLATION; PARITY VIOLATION; QUASIRELATIVISTIC; MOLECULAR SPINS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; RADIUM;

LASER COOLING;

EID: 78649542721     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.052521     Document Type: Article

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