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Dependence of guiding efficiency on the transverse temperature of the incident beam

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posted on 2013-06-26, 00:00 authored by Shunyong Hou, Qin Wang, Lianzhong Deng, Jianping Yin

Figure 5. Dependence of guiding efficiency on the transverse temperature of the incident beam. The data with an error bar are obtained by 3D Monte Carlo simulations, and the solid curve corresponds to theoretically calculated values.

Abstract

We propose a scheme of a surface electrostatic velocity filter capable of preparing cold polar molecules on the surface of a substrate by selecting a low-velocity component of an effusive beam from a thermal gas reservoir. Using ND3 as a molecular sample, the dependence of the performance of the filter on the parameters of both the filter setup and the incident molecular beam is investigated by using a theoretical model and Monte Carlo simulations. A detailed study of the guiding process of molecules, including the evolution of phase space density of the packet in the filter, is carried out and shows that the beam selection process is mainly completed in the front part of the filter.

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