Laser excitation of positronium in the Paschen-Back regime |
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Authors: | Cassidy D B Hisakado T H Tom H W K Mills A P |
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Institution: | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0413, USA. |
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Abstract: | Zeeman mixing of singlet and triplet 2P states of positronium (Ps) atoms, followed by decay back to the ground state, can effectively turn a long-lived triplet atom into a short-lived singlet state, which would seem to preclude laser cooling of Ps in a magnetic field. Here we report experiments which show that, in fact, because of the large splitting of the n=2 states in a high magnetic field (the Paschen-Back regime), the amount of such mixing diminishes approximately exponentially with an increasing magnetic field >0.01 T and is essentially eliminated above ~2 T. Thus, laser cooling of Ps should be feasible at high fields, which will facilitate the production of a Ps Bose-Einstein condensate. |
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