RJ. MINI-SYMPOSIUM: ALKALI ATOMS

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2007 - 1:30PM

Room: 2015 MCPHERSON LAB

Chair: RUVIN FERBER, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

RJ01 INVITED TALK 30min1:30

PRODUCTION OF ULTRACOLD POLAR MOLECULES FROM ATOMS.

D. DEMILLE, Physics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.

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RJ02			15min2:05

A FREQUENCY COMB APPROACH TO VIBRATIONAL STABILIZATION OF FESHBACH MOLECULES.

AVI PE'ER, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440; EVGENY SHAPIRO, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; MATTHEW C. STOWE, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440; MOSHE SHAPIRO, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel; JUN YE, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440.

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RJ03			15min2:22

FORMATION, DETECTION, AND SPECTROSCOPY OF ULTRACOLD GROUND-STATE KRb.

D. WANG, J.-T. KIM, E. E. EYLER, P. L. GOULD AND W. C. STWALLEY, Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269.

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RJ04			15min2:39

RESONANCE-ENHANCED PHOTOASSOCIATIVE FORMATION OF GROUND-STATE Rb₂ AND SPECTROSCOPY OF MIXED-CHARACTER EXCITED STATES.

H. K. PECHKIS, D. WANG, Y. HUANG, E. E. EYLER, P. L. GOULD AND W. C. STWALLEY, Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269; C. P. KOCH, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.

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RJ05			15min2:56

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENON IN THE COLD ATOMIC CASCADE SYSTEM.

RAY-YUAN CHANG, Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101,Taiwan(R.O.C.); WEI-CHIA FANG, Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan(R.O.C.); MING-DA TSAI, Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan(R.O.C.); CHIN-CHUN TSAI, Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan(R.O.C.).

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INTERMISSION

RJ06			15min3:30

INVESTIGATION OF L-UNCOUPLING AND Lambda

-DOUBLING IN THE RYDBERG STATES OF THE SODIUM DIMER.

RAY-YUAN CHANG, Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101,Taiwan(R.O.C.); THOU-JEN WHANG, CHUEN-PING CHENG, Department of Chemistry, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan(R.O.C.); CHIN-CHUN TSAI, Department of Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan(R.O.C.).

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RJ07			15min3:47

SPECTROSCOPY ON EXTREMELY WEAKLY-BOUND MOLECULES: COOPER PAIRS AND EFIMOV TRIMERS.

CHENG CHIN, The James Franck institute and the Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637.

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RJ08			15min4:04

POLARIZATION LABELING SPECTROSCOPY APPLIED TO ALKALI DIMERS: RECENT RESULTS FOR NaRb AND Li₂.

WLODZIMIERZ JASTRZEBSKI, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland; PAWE\L KOWALCZYK, Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoza 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland.

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RJ09			15min4:21

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE Cs₂ TRIPLET STATES BY PERTURBATION FACILITATED INFRARED-INFRARED DOUBLE RESONANCE AND TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY.

FENG XIE, DAN LI, LI LI, Department of Physics and Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Nanosciences, Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084, China; VLADIMIR B. SOVKOV, VALERY S. IVANOV, V. A. Fock Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, 1 Ulyanovskaya Street, Petrodvorets, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia; AND SYLVIE MAGNIER, Laboratoire de Physique des Atomes, Lasers, Molećule et Surfaces (PALMS), CNRS et Universite\' RENNES I (UMR 6627), Campus de Beaulieu, Bt 11B 35042 Cedex, France.

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RJ10			10min4:38

EXPERIMENTAL MAPPING OF THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF THE ELECTRONIC TRANSITION DIPOLE MOMENT FUNCTION µ_e(R) OF THE Na₂ A¹ Sigma

⁺_u-X¹

⁺_g SYSTEM.

E. AHMED, B. BESER, P. QI, S. KOTOCHIGOVA, Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122; J. HUENNEKENS, Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015; A. M. LYYRA, Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

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RJ11			10min4:50

EXPERIMENTAL MAPPING OF THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF THE ELECTRONIC TRANSITION DIPOLE MOMENT FUNCTION µ_e(R) OF THE ⁷Li₂ A¹ Sigma

⁺_u-X¹

⁺_g SYSTEM.

P. QI, O. SALIHOGLU, E. AHMED, S. KOTOCHIGOVA, Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122; J. HUENNEKENS, Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015; A. M. LYYRA, Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

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RJ12			10min5:02

EXCLUSION OF METAL ATOMS FROM THEIR SALTS WITH ATOMS OF HYDROGEN: THE ROLE OF THE REACTIONS IN CHAIN PROCESSES.

V. V. AZATYAN, N. M. RUBTSOV, G. I. TSVETKOV AND V. I. CHERNYSH, Institute for Structural Macrokinetics and Material Science of Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Russian Federation, Noginski region, Chernogolovka.

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RJ13	Post-deadline Abstract		15min5:14

NEAR-THRESHOLD MAGNETIC SPECTROSCOPY IN ULTRACOLD ALKALI MIXTURES.

A. SIMONI, Laboratoire de Physique des Atomes, Lasers, Molécules et Surfaces, UMR 6627 and Universté de Rennes, 35042 Rennes Cedex,France.

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RJ14	Post-deadline Abstract		15min5:31

RESONANT ENHANCEMENT OF STATE-MIXING AND IONIZING COLLISIONS IN COLD RYDBERG-ATOM GASES.

A. REINHARD, T. CUBEL LIEBISCH, P. R. BERMAN AND G. RAITHEL, FOCUS Center & Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

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