Laser cooling and trap** are central to modern atomic physics. The most used technique
in cold-atom physics is the magneto-optical trap (MOT), which combines laser cooling with a …

We demonstrate significantly improved magneto-optical trap** of molecules using a very
slow cryogenic beam source and either rf modulated or dc magnetic fields. The rf magneto …

The NL-eEDM collaboration is building an experimental setup to search for the permanent
electric dipole moment of the electron in a slow beam of cold barium fluoride molecules [NL …

We report optical trap** of laser-cooled molecules at sufficient density to observe
molecule-molecule collisions for the first time in a bulk gas. SrF molecules from a red …

We demonstrate one-dimensional Doppler cooling of a beam of buffer-gas-cooled barium
monofluoride (BaF) molecules. This represents a key step towards further cooling and …

We theoretically investigate the laser cooling of fermionic barium monofluoride (137 BaF)
molecules, which are promising candidates for precision studies of weak parity violation and …

Many experiments in atomic and molecular physics require simultaneous frequency
stabilization of multiple lasers. We present a stabilization scheme based on a scanning …

A supersonic beam source for SrF and BaF molecules is constructed by combining the
expansion of carrier gas (a mixture of 2% SF 6 and 98% argon) from an Even–Lavie valve …

Aiming at a laser cooling investigation, we have used ab initio complete active space self
consistent field (CASSCF)/(MRCI+ Q) calculations to study the electronic structure of the …

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the ionization potentials of the MF (M= Ca,
Sr, and Ba) molecules using the state-of-the-art relativistic coupled-cluster approach with …