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Introduction
Title Page
Outline
Motivation
T-Violation
Measuring EDM
EDM: Cells & Beams
EDM: Traps

Ytterbium Info
Ytterbium Info
Yb Energy Levels
Yb 1S0 -> 1P1
Yb 1S0 -> 3P1
Advantages for EDM
Adv. for Trapping

Trapping
Cooling & Trapping
Force of Light 1
Force of Light 2
Slowing Atomic Beam
Zeeman Slowing
Basics of a MOT
Doppler Cooling
Below Doppler Limit
Pol Grad Cooling I
Pol Grad Cooling II
Dipole Force Traps
F.O.R.T.

The Experiment
Apparatus Schematic
Apparatus Photo
Trapped Atoms Photo
Setup & Parameters
Zeeman Slowing
Velocity of Beam
Fluorescence from Yb
Fluorescence from 174Yb
Lifetime of MOT
Temperature of Atoms
Preliminary Analysis
Summary of Results

Future Work
Upcoming Work
The Master Plan



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Reina Maruyama
Email -- reinam@phys.washington.edu
Web -- http://www.phys.washington.edu/~reinam/