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Lifetime of weakly-bound dimers of ultracold metastable helium studied by photoassociation

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We describe two-photon photoassociation (PA) experiments operated in an ultracold gas of metastable $^4$He$^*$ atoms in the $2^3S_1$ state. Atom-molecule dark resonances as well as Raman signals provide information on the exotic molecule in the least bound vibrational $J=2$, $v=14$ state of the $^5\Sigma_g^+$ interaction potential of two spin-polarized metastable atoms. The physical origin of the various two-photon PA signals is first discussed. Their linewidths are interpreted in term of processes limiting the lifetime $\tau$ of the exotic molecule. A value of $\tau=1.4\pm0.3~\mu$s is found, which is discussed in view of two recent calculations of the Penning ionization rate induced by spin-dipole coupling and of the atom-molecule inelastic collisions.
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hal-00120114 , version 1 (13-12-2006)
hal-00120114 , version 2 (23-02-2007)

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Steven Moal, Maximilien Null Portier, Nassim Zahzam, Michèle Leduc. Lifetime of weakly-bound dimers of ultracold metastable helium studied by photoassociation. 2007. ⟨hal-00120114v2⟩
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