1. Positronium Laser Cooling via the 1^{3}S-2^{3}P Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse.
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Glöggler LT, Gusakova N, Rienäcker B, Camper A, Caravita R, Huck S, Volponi M, Wolz T, Penasa L, Krumins V, Gustafsson FP, Comparat D, Auzins M, Bergmann B, Burian P, Brusa RS, Castelli F, Cerchiari G, Ciuryło R, Consolati G, Doser M, Graczykowski Ł, Grosbart M, Guatieri F, Haider S, Janik MA, Kasprowicz G, Khatri G, Kłosowski Ł, Kornakov G, Lappo L, Linek A, Malamant J, Mariazzi S, Petracek V, Piwiński M, Pospíšil S, Povolo L, Prelz F, Rangwala SA, Rauschendorfer T, Rawat BS, Rodin V, Røhne OM, Sandaker H, Smolyanskiy P, Sowiński T, Tefelski D, Vafeiadis T, Welsch CP, Zawada M, Zielinski J, and Zurlo N
- Abstract
We report on laser cooling of a large fraction of positronium (Ps) in free flight by strongly saturating the 1^{3}S-2^{3}P 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 2^{3}P 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 v_{1D}<3.7×10^{4} ms^{-1}.
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- 2024
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