Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010.
This work details one experiment involving forbidden atomic transitions in a
magneto-optical trap and several experiments involving ultracold NaCs molecules.
In all cases the molecules are formed from atoms stored in magneto-optical traps
and are therefore translationally ultracold. We report the first observation of
ultracold NaCs molecules, detail several processes in the formation of ultracold
NaCs, report photoassociation and photoionization spectroscopy, and assign part
of the observed spectrum by comparison with ab initio and experimentally determined
potentials.
