A Collider for Ultracold Atoms

• Introduction
• Cold and ultracold collisions
• Colliding atomic clouds using a double-well trap
  • Creating a magnetic double-well potential
    • The Ioffe-Pritchard Trap
    • Photo of the QUIC trap
  • What does it look like??
    • How do we detect the atoms??
    • How did the clouds get so cold??
  • Zooming in on the collision
  
  
• Scattering patterns
  • Getting the angular dependency of scattering
  • Polar plots of the angular scattering probability
  • Interpretation
    • Partial wave expansion
    • Partial waves for
  • Scattering Yield
  
  
• Movies
• People involved in the collision experiments
• Our publications on this topic
• About this document ...