| Author(s): |
Z. Y. Liu; P. A. Dowben; A P. Popov; David P. Pappas; |
| Title: |
Consideration of possible mass and velocity corrections to magnetic experiments |
| Published: |
January 01, 2003 |
| Abstract: |
Gadolinium occurs, in natural abundance, as several isotopes. The possible combinations of different gadolinium isotopes dictates that even for a fixed number of atoms in the cluster, clusters of gadolinium atoms will exhibit a range of masses. This and the expected consequence of the translation energy distributions are explored as possible corrections to Stern-Gerlach cluster beam-deflection experiments. Upon closer inspection of the experimental data, we find that the translation energy plus the vibrational temperature distribution may be inhomogeneous. This could be the origin of a long tail to high deflections in the experimental deflection profiles, at low cluster temperatures, in the magnetic cluster Stern-Gerlach experiments. |
| Citation: |
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) |
| Volume: |
67 |
| Pages: |
pp. 033202-1 - 033202-6 |
| Keywords: |
cluster beam deflection;magnetic clusters;Stern-Gerlach |
| Research Areas: |
Electromagnetics |
