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Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Jun 27;112(25):253005. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.253005. Epub 2014 Jun 26.

Two-photon rotational action spectroscopy of cold OH- at 1 ppb accuracy.

Physical review letters

Pavol Jusko, Oskar Asvany, Ann-Christin Wallerstein, Sandra Brünken, Stephan Schlemmer

Affiliations

  1. I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Köln, Germany.

PMID: 25014811 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.253005

Abstract

The fundamental rotational transition J = 1←0 of the anion OH(-) has been measured by cooling mass-selected OH(-) ions to 10 K in a 22-pole ion trap and applying a novel rotational-rovibrational two-photon scheme. A transition frequency of (1  123 101.0410 ± 0.0014)  MHz was obtained with so far unprecedented accuracy. The general application of the presented action-spectroscopy scheme to other anions and cations is discussed.

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