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We report measurements of the angular distribution of optical suppression in photoassociative ionization collisions taking place within a bright, slow Na atom beam. At a collision “temperature” (T=Ekin/kB) of about 5 mK we observe rich structure in the suppression measure as a function of the angle between the atom-beam axis and the polarization axis of the suppressor light beam. This structure cannot be explained by the superposition of individual partial-wave contributions to the suppression measure, and we propose a partial-wave interference phenomenon to account for it.
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Received: 9 June 2000 / Revised version: 21 September 2000 / Published online: 8 November 2000
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DeGraffenreid, W., Ramirez-Serrano, J., Liu, YM. et al. Structure in the angular dependence of optical suppression of photoassociative ionization collisions within an optically cooled and collimated sodium atom beam . Appl Phys B 71, 881–884 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000472
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000472