Detection of long-lived complexes in ultracold atom-molecule collisions
Detection of long-lived complexes in ultracold atom-molecule collisions
We investigate collisional loss in an ultracold mixture of 40 K 87 Rb molecules and 87 Rb atoms, where chemical reactions between the two species are energetically forbidden.Through direct detection of the KRb * 2 intermediate complexes formed from atom-molecule collisions, we show that a 1064 nm laser source used …