https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2002-00104-5
Collisions between electrostatically confined linear polar molecules
Communications Research Laboratory,
Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
Corresponding author: a kajita@crl.go.jp
Received:
6
December
2001
Revised:
26
February
2002
Published online:
28
June
2002
Collisions between linear polar molecules that were electrostatically trapped were investigated. The collisional transition from a low to a high field seeking state (inelastic collision) causes trap loss. The efficiency of evaporative cooling is improved at higher elastic collision rates. We calculated cross-sections of inelastic and elastic collision using a semi-classical treatment.
PACS: 31.15.Qg – Molecular dynamics and other numerical methods / 33.80.Ps – Optical cooling of molecules; trapping / 33.90.+h – Other topics in molecular properties and interactions with photons
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2002
