https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530070016
Flux enhancement model for cold cesium fine-structure changing collisions
1
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di
Pisa, via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
2
Laboratoire Aimé CottonLaboratoire Aimé
Cotton is associated with Université Paris-Sud., CNRS II, Bâtiment 505, Campus d'Orsay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Received:
22
July
1999
Revised:
4
May
2000
Published online: 15 November 2000
The measurements of fine-structure
changing collisions in a cesium magneto-optical
trap, reported in a previous work
[A. Fioretti et al., Phys. Rev. A 55, R3999 (1997)],
are reanalyzed within a model based on the flux
enhancement effect, which takes place in cold atomic
collisions. In the present analysis, we consider the
cooperative effect of the long-range and the
shorter-range excitation by the strong trap laser. We evidence also the
important role of the hyperfine structure of the Cs2 molecular levels
asymptotically connected to the
ground-state and 
excited-state dissociation limits.
PACS: 34.50.Rk – Laser-modified scattering and reactions / 32.80.Pj – Optical cooling of atoms; trapping
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2000
