@article{12746,
  author = {Kia Ng and Yan Zhou and Lan Cheng and Noah Schlossberger and Sun Park and Tanya Roussy and Luke Caldwell and Yuval Shagam and Antonio Vigil and Eric Cornell and Jun Ye},
  title = {Spectroscopy on the electron-electric-dipole-moment–sensitive states of ThF +},
  abstract = {An excellent candidate molecule for the measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment (eEDM) is thorium monofluoride ( ThF + ) because the eEDM–sensitive state,  3 Δ 1, is the electronic ground state, and thus is immune to decoherence from spontaneous decay. We perform spectroscopy on  X 3 Δ 1  to extract three spectroscopic constants crucial to the eEDM experiment: the hyperfine coupling constant, the molecular frame electric dipole moment, and the magnetic  g  factor. To understand the impact of thermal blackbody radiation on the vibrational ground state, we study the lifetime of the first excited vibrational manifold of  X 3 Δ 1 . We perform ab initio calculations, compare them to our results, and discuss prospects for using  ThF +  in an eEDM experiment at JILA.},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {Physical Review A},
  volume = {105},
  pages = {022823},
  month = {2022-02},
  publisher = {American Physical Society (APS)},
  issn = {2469-9926, 2469-9934},
  url = {https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.022823},
  doi = {10.1103/physreva.105.022823},
}