New Journal of Physics Cold TiO ( X 3 1 ) – He collisions

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  • Mei-Ju Lu
  • Jonathan D Weinstein
چکیده

We use laser ablation and cryogenic helium buffer-gas cooling to produce large numbers of X 11 TiO molecules at a translational temperature of 5K. We investigate their cold collisions with helium and measure elastic and inelastic scattering cross-sections. As expected for 31 molecules, which have large spin–rotation couplings, TiO’s inelastic m-changing collision cross-section is large: on the same order as its momentum transfer cross-section.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009