Research on metastable krypton atoms in a magneto-optical trap
 
Dr. Matthew Walhout

Photoassocitaion in Krypton
Equipment

Summer Students
                          2008  Jennafer Banister, Zach Smith
                          2007  Ross Norman, Kathy Hoogeboom
                          2006  Ross Norman, Dan Vanden Akker
                          2005  Kristin Datema, John Vander Weide
                          2004  Shannon Fogwell, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, Chris Walker
                          2003  (Professor's Sabbatical)
                          2002  Andrew Vanden Heuvel
                          2001  Sean Vander Meulen
                          2000  Nathan Miller
                          1999  Nathan Miller
                          1998  David Tong
                          1997  Jonathan Lefers, David Rupke, David Tong

Senior Research Projects
                             2004-2005  Shannon Fogwell (Optimizing Krypton-83 Trap)                                                Krypton)
                             1999-2000   Nathan Miller (Metastable Lifetime Measurements)
                             1998-1999   David Tong (Magneto-Optical Trapping of Metastable

Funding from Calvin College, Research Corporation, and
the National Science Foundation
(Grants NSF-PHYS-9876679, NSF-PHYS-0140135, and NSF-PHYS-0554807)



 

Publication

Direct measurement of the metastable 3P2 decay rate in krypton
Physical Review A, 66, 012507 (2002)