Article on compact beam source

Design, construction and benchmarking of a compact, high-flux Sr beam source. Two approaches with different degree of risk and expected atom flux will be pursued. The low-risk approach is a miniaturized version of the existing UvA apparatus, which is expected to deliver a cold-atom flux of >108 88Sr/s. The higher-risk approach will use a heated sapphire Sr vapour cell [Sek17] inside a vacuum chamber to create a 2D MOT source with an estimated flux of >108 88Sr/s. A PD from UoB will be seconded to UvA and contribute know-how on integration. The testbed of T4.3 will be used for benchmarking the source.