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Photoassociative Spectroscopy Of Ultracold Argon And Krypton Confined In A Magneto Optical Trap, Maha Khaled Omar
Photoassociative Spectroscopy Of Ultracold Argon And Krypton Confined In A Magneto Optical Trap, Maha Khaled Omar
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Creating ultracold molecules has attracted considerable interest in the last decade. Once created, such molecules can be used for precision spectroscopy or to study chemical reactions at ultracold tem peratures. Several techniques have been developed to produce ultracold molecules; the most common is photoassociation where two ultracold atoms collide in the presence of light that induces a free-bound transition to an excited molecular state. Photoassociation can also be used to perform spectroscopy in order to map out the ro-vibrational levels of a molecular state. In this dissertaiotn, we report on our Photoasociative Spectroscopy (PAS) studies conducted separately in argon and …