Researchers have successfully measured the quantum structure of radium monofluoride (RaF) using ion-trapping and specialized laser techniques, allowing for the detailed characterization of its rotational energy levels and establishing a laser-cooling scheme.
These findings are crucial for future experiments focused on laser-cooling and trapping RaF molecules, which are expected to play a significant role in studies of nuclear electroweak properties and violations of parity and time-reversal symmetry, potentially explaining the universe’s matter-antimatter asymmetry.
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