RC. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: ULTRA-COLD MOLECULES

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1998 - 8:30AM

Room: 1005 SMITH LAB

Chair: AMANDA J. ROSS, University Lyon I, France

RC01 JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY SPECIAL REVIEW LECTURE 30min8:30

PHOTOASSOCIATION OF ULTRACOLD ATOMS: A NEW TOOL FOR MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY.

WILLIAM C. STWALLEY, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046.

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RC02			15min9:05

PREDICTIONS OF THE HYPERFINE STRUCTURE OF THE Cs₂ 0^-_g LONG-RANGE MOLECULAR STATE DISSOCIATING INTO Cs(6s²S_1/2)+Cs(6p²P_3/2).

S. ROUSSEAU, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire UMR 5579, Bât. 205, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France; S. MAGNIER, Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et des Collisions, 1 Bd Arago, F-57078 Metz, France; G. HADINGER AND M. AUBERT-FRÉCON, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire UMR 5579, Bât. 205, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.

RC03			15min9:22

LONG RANGE UNDULATION OF THE POTENTIAL ENERGY CURVES FOR DIATOMIC RYDBERG STATES..

A. YIANNOPOULOU, G.-H. JEUNG, Applications Scientifiques du Calcul Intensif (CNRS UPR9029), Campus d'Orsay, Bâtiment 506, 91405 Orsay, France and Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (CNRS UPR3321), Campus d'Orsay, Bâtiment 505, 91405 Orsay, France; S. PARK, H.-S. LEE AND Y. S. LEE, Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305-701, Sounth Korea.

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RC04			10min9:39

A TRANSITION SCHEME FOR OBSERVING SODIUM DIMER RYDBERG STATES AND PRODUCING STATE-SELECTED ULTRACOLD MOLECULAR IONS BY ALL-OPTICAL TRIPLE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY.

J. LI, J. ZHANG, J. BAHNS, W. C. STWALLEY, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268; E. S. CHANG, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003; AND C. C. TSAI, Department of Physics, National Chung-Hsing Univerity, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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RC05			10min9:51

ULTRACOLD MOLECULE FORMATION.

J. T. BAHNS, W. C. STWALLEY AND H. WANG, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046.

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RC06			10min10:03

LOW TEMPERATURE CHEMICAL REACTOR.

MARIN PICHLER, WILLIAM C. STWALLEY, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269.

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RC07			15min10:15

INVESTIGATION OF EXOERGIC COLLISIONS IN MIXED SPECIES TRAP: Na/Rb, Na/K, Rb/K.

V. S. BAGNATO, L. G. MARCASSA, G. D. TELLES, S. R. MUNIZ, A. A. PEREIRA, Instituto de Fí sica de S ao Carlos, Universidade de S ao Paulo - Caixa Postal 369, 13560-970 - S ao Carlos - SP - Brasil.

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INTERMISSION

RC08			15min10:45

OPTICAL OPTICAL DOUBLE RESONANCE (OODR) OF THE LITHIUM DIMER: THE a³ Sigma

_u⁺ AND 2¹ Sigma

_u⁺ STATES.

C. LINTON, Physics Department, University of New Brunswick, P.O.Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3; F. MARTIN, P. CROZET, A. J. ROSS, I. RUSSIER, A. YIANNOPOULOU, Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire (CNRS UMR5579), and Université Lyon I, Campus la Doua, Bâtiment 205, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France; L. LI, Department of Modern Applied Physics, Tchinghua University, Beijing, China; AND A. M. LYYRA, Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.

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RC09			10min11:02

E¹

_g⁺ - F¹

_g⁺ ENERGY LEVELS CROSSING AND LONG RANGE WINDOWS IN Li₂.

STILIANA ANTONOVA, GUENADIY LAZAROV, XUEJUN WANG, JIANBING QI, MARJATTA LYYRA, Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA; COLAN LINTON, Department of Physics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3.

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RC10			10min11:14

LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY OF Mg OLIGOMERS ATTACHED TO LARGE HELIUM CLUSTERS.

M. R. RADCLIFF, J. HIGGINS, J. REHO, K. K. LEHMANN AND G. SCOLES, Department of Chemisty, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.

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RC11			15min11:26

DIRECT STATE-SELECTIVE MEASUREMENT OF THE COOLING RATES OF VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED 1³ Sigma

⁺_g Na₂ ON THE SURFACE OF HELIUM CLUSTERS.

JAMES REHO, JOHN P. HIGGINS, KEVIN K. LEHMANN AND GIACINTO SCOLES, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.

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RC12			15min11:43

NON-ADIABATIC PROCESSES IN THE PHOTODISSOCIATION OF QUARTET STATE Na₃ AND K₃.

GIACINTO SCOLES, JAMES REHO, JOHN P. HIGGINS, CARLO CALLEGARI AND KEVIN K. LEHMANN, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.

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RC13	Post-deadline Abstract		15min12:00

SATELLITE BANDS OF K, Rb AND Cs RESONANT LINES AS FRANCK-CONDON WINDOWS TO INTERMEDIATE LONG-RANGE MOLECULES.

D. VEA, R. BEUC, S. MILOEVI AND G. PICHLER, Institute of Physics, POB 304, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.

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