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Generating intense beams of low-energy molecules

G. N. Makarov

Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow

Abstract: A method for obtaining intense pulsed beams of molecules possessing low kinetic energies is proposed. The method is based on the formation of a cold pressure shock (shock wave) in an intense pulsed molecular beam interacting with a solid surface, which serves as a source of the secondary beam of low-energy molecules. The proposed method was successfully used to obtain intense beams of H$_2$, He, CH$_4$, and Kr molecules with kinetic energies not exceeding 10 meV, and H$_2$/Kr and He/Kr beams with kinetic energies of H$_2$ and He molecules below 1 meV.

PACS: 33.80.-b, 42.62.Fi, 82.40.Fp, 82.50.Fv

Received: 31.07.2002

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2002, 76:5, 283–286

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