Abstract

We present progress towards the production of the first dual species metastable Helium (He^*)-⁸⁷Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). The production of a He^*-Rb binary BEC would allow for studies of Penning and associative ionization, photoassociative spectroscopy and eventually for a study of bound ultracold He^*Rb molecules. The production of a He^*-Rb BEC will be realised by modifying the existing He^* BEC experiment at the Australian National University [1].

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