Measurement of the Stability of P-Wave Pairs in a Quasi-1D Fermi Gas

$P$-wave interactions are known to lead to intriguing quantum phenomena such as $p + ip$ topological superfluids and Majorana fermions. However, the experimental detection of these phenomena in ultracold atomic gases remains a challenge due to the severe atom losses from three-body recombination collisions near the p-wave Feshbach resonance in a 3D atomic gas. It has been recently predicted\footnote{Lihong Zhou and Xiaoling Cui, Phys. Rev. A 96, 030701 (2017).} that such effects could be suppressed by introducing 1D confinement, thus leading to the formation of p-wave atom pairs. We will study the stability of atom pairs in a quasi-1D Fermi gas interacting via a confinement-induced p-wave Feshbach resonance. We spin-polarize $^6$Li atoms in one of the lowest hyperfine levels whose p-wave interactions are tunable via a Feshbach resonance. Quasi-1D confinement is achieved with a two-dimensional compensated optical lattice. The stability of the p-wave pairs will be evaluated by measuring the atom loss, which can be obtained by comparing the atom number before and after preparing the system near resonance.