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Positronium Laser Cooling via the 13S-23P Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse

  • (AEá IS Collaboration)
  • CERN
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Oslo
  • University of Trento
  • University of Hamburg
  • Laboratoire Aimé Cotton
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Milan
  • University of Innsbruck
  • Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
  • Polytechnic University of Milan
  • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Raman Research Institute
  • Leipzig University
  • Cockcroft Institute
  • Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • University of Brescia

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Abstract

We report on laser cooling of a large fraction of positronium (Ps) in free flight by strongly saturating the 13S-23P transition with a broadband, long-pulsed 243 nm alexandrite laser. The ground state Ps cloud is produced in a magnetic and electric field-free environment. We observe two different laser-induced effects. The first effect is an increase in the number of atoms in the ground state after the time Ps has spent in the long-lived 23P states. The second effect is one-dimensional Doppler cooling of Ps, reducing the cloud's temperature from 380(20) to 170(20) K. We demonstrate a 58(9)% increase in the fraction of Ps atoms with v1D<3.7×104 ms-1.

Original languageEnglish
Article number083402
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume132
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Feb 2024

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