We simultaneously confine fermionic metastable 3He atoms and bosonic metastable 4He atoms in a magneto-optical trap. The trapped clouds, containing up to 1.5 x 10(8) atoms of each isotope, are characterized by measuring ions and metastable helium atoms escaping from the trap. Optical pumping of 3He atoms to a nontrapped hyperfine state is investigated and it is shown that large atom numbers can...

A magnetometer using spin-polarized K and 3He atoms occupying the same volume is used to search for anomalous nuclear spin-dependent forces generated by a separate 3He spin source. We measure changes in the 3He spin precession frequency with a resolution of 18 pHz and constrain anomalous spin forces between neutrons to be less than 2x10(-8) of their magnetic or less than 2x10(-3) of their gravi...

It is shown that the nuclear effects playing a relevant role in Deep Inelastic Scattering of polarized electrons by polarized 3He are mainly those arising from the effective proton and neutron polarizations generated by the S′ and D waves in 3He. A simple and reliable equation relating the neutron, g 1 , and 3He, g3 1 , spin structure functions is proposed. It is shown that the measurement of t...

In this paper, we address the relations between the structure, electronic level structure, energetics, and localization dynamics of an excess electron in a bubble in liquid 4He, 3He, and Ne. Our treatment of the dynamics of formation for the electron bubble rests on a quantum mechanical Wigner-Seitz description of the excess electron in conjunction with a hydrodynamic picture for the liquid. Th...

izabilities have been formed. These proceedings will concentrate on recent measurments on the neutron via a polarized 3He target in the low Q2 region. In particular, experiment E97-110 was performed in Hall A to study the neutron and 3He spin structure at four-momentum transfers between 0.02 and 0.3 GeV2. This Q2 range allows us to make a benchmark-check of Chiral Perturbation Theory calculatio...

2014 Magnetic diffraction in a bcc single crystal of 3He directly proves the occurrence of an antiferromagnetic ordering with a propagation vector ( 1 /2, 0, 0). J. Physique Lett. 46 (1985) L-923 L-927 ler OCTOBRE 1985, Classification Physics Abstracts 67. 80 75 . 25 75. 30E The originality of the magnetic ordering of solid 3 He is that the large zero point motion leads to atom-atom exchange pr...

When immersed in liquid 3He, the nanometer strands of aerogel are coated with a thin layer of solid 3He, forming a network of irregular nanotubes. Owing to its high purity and weak interactions, this system is ideal for studying fundamental processes. We report the first experiments on solid 3He in aerogel at ultralow temperatures, cooled by direct adiabatic demagnetization. Simultaneous nuclea...

Superfluid 3He confined in aerogel offers a unique chance to study the effects of a short mean free path on the properties of a well defined superfluid Fermi liquid with anisotropic pairing. Transport coefficients and collective excitations, e.g. longitudinal sound, are expected to react sensitively to a short mean free path and to offer the possibility for testing recently developed models for...

We demonstrate spin-exchange optical pumping of 3He using a "hybrid" K-Rb vapor mixture. The Rb atoms absorb light from a standard laser at 795 nm, then collisionally polarize the potassium atoms. Spin-exchange collisions of K and 3He atoms then transfer the angular momentum to the 3He with much greater efficiency than Rb-3He. For a K-rich vapor, the efficiency of the hybrid spin-exchange colli...