Cassidy, DB; Hisakado, TH; Tom, HWK; Mills, AP; (2011) Laser Excitation of Positronium in the Paschen-Back Regime. Physical Review Letters , 106 (17) , Article 173401. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.173401.

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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 >0.01T and is essentially eliminated above ∼2T. Thus, laser cooling of Ps should be feasible at high fields, which will facilitate the production of a Ps Bose-Einstein condensate. © 2011 American Physical Society.

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