Transverse stability in a Stark decelerator

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Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker,^1,2 Nicolas Vanhaecke,¹ Hendrick L. Bethlem,^1,2 and Gerard Meijer¹
¹Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
²FOM-Institute for Plasmaphysics Rijnhuizen, Edisonbaan 14, 3439 MN Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Received 28 April 2005; revised 8 November 2005; published 1 February 2006

Theconcept of phase stability in a Stark decelerator ensures thatpolar molecules can be accelerated, guided, or decelerated without loss;molecules within a certain position and velocity interval are kepttogether throughout the deceleration process. In this paper the influenceof the transverse motion on phase stability in a Starkdecelerator is investigated. For typical deceleration experiments—i.e., for high valuesof the phase angle phi ₀—the transverse motion considerably enhances theregion in phase space for which phase stable deceleration occurs.For low values of phi ₀, however, the transverse motion reducesthe acceptance of a Stark decelerator and unstable regions inphase space appear. These effects are quantitatively explained in termsof a coupling between the longitudinal and transverse motion. Thepredicted longitudinal acceptance of a Stark decelerator is verified bymeasurements on a beam of OH (X ²_3/2,J=3/2) radicals passing througha Stark decelerator.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.023401
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.73.023401
PACS:	33.80.Ps; 33.55.Be; 39.10.+j 33.80.Ps Optical cooling of molecules; trapping 33.55.Be Zeeman and Stark effects (molecules) 39.10.+j Atomic and molecular beam sources and techniques YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS:	Stark effect, molecule-photon collisions, molecular beams

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