Ultracold collisions between Rb and excited NH

ORAL

Abstract

Rb--NH is a system of both fundamental and current experimental interest. We investigate the prospect of collisional processes between the Rb (5p) + NH $\left(\rm{X}~^{3}\Sigma^{-}\right)$ and Rb (5s) + NH $\left(^{1}\Delta\right)$ states in the Rb--NH system. The inelastic collision processes inherently involve more than one Born-Oppenheimer potential surface, which is of general interest in the study of atomic and molecular collisions.

*We thank the NSF for support.

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Authors

  • Steven Wrathmall

    • JILA and University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Edmund Meyer

    • JILA and University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Daniel Haxton

    • JILA and University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Heather Lewandowski

    • JILA/University of Colorado
    • JILA and University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Chris Greene

    • JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440
    • JILA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado
    • JILA and the Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder CO
    • JILA and University of Colorado at Boulder