Download or read book The Design and Construction of a Bose-Einstein Condensation Apparatus [microform] written by Ana Jofre and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes the design and construction of the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) apparatus at the University of Toronto. The aim of the experiment is to create a Bose-Einstein condensate out of a vapour cloud of 87Rb atoms using a combination of laser cooling, magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling. The design and construction of all of the constituent parts necessary for the realization of these techniques are described in this work. The apparatus consists of two magneto-optical traps (MOTs, whereby the atoms are collected from a background vapour into the first MOT, and then transferred into the second MOT, which is in a region of ultra-high vacuum (