Abstract
In a steady-state experiment, a stream of containing an extremely small concentration of has been cooled below the lambda point and passed through a narrow slit as superfluid. If the atoms had passed through the slit, most of them would have been detected by their radioactive decay in the gas stream leaving the cryostat. The fraction actually found was 0.04±0.07 (standard deviation) of those expected if there had been no separation of the isotopes. This result is consistent with the Bose-Einstein condensation model for the superfluidity of . A new type of generator for is described.
- Received 27 July 1953
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.92.547
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