Hybrid systems of laser-cooled trapped ions and ultracold atoms combined in a single
experimental setup have recently emerged as a new platform for fundamental research in …

The recent development of a range of new methods for producing samples of gas-phase
molecules that are translationally cold (K) or ultracold (mK) is driving efforts to study reactive …

Chemical models used to study the chemical composition of the gas and the ices in the
interstellar medium are based on a network of chemical reactions and associated rate …

We report on a study of cold reactive collisions between sympathetically cooled molecular
ions and laser-cooled atoms in an ion-atom hybrid trap. Chemical reactions were studied at …

Since Arrhenius first proposed an equation to account for the behavior of thermally activated
reactions in 1889, significant progress has been made in our understanding of chemical …

Multipole radiofrequency ion traps are a highly versatile tool to study molecular ions and
their interactions in a well-controllable environment. In particular the cryogenic 22-pole ion …

The investigation of cold interactions between ions and neutrals has recently emerged as a
new scientific frontier at the interface of physics and chemistry. Here, we report a study of …

Research with cold molecules has developed rapidly in recent years. There is now a variety
of established methods for cooling molecules into the millikelvin range. Nevertheless, a focal …

The highly exoergic nucleophilic substitution reaction F–+ CH3I shows reaction dynamics
strikingly different from that of substitution reactions of larger halogen anions. Over a wide …

This work presents numerical simulations of the kinetic temperature of ions stored in a linear
multipole RF trap (22-pole trap) under the influence of elastic collisions with buffer gas …