Fig. 4: EIBT experiment and results.
a Experimental setup used to produce and trap a beam of NeAr+ and detect the neutral decay products over time. b, c Neutral product count vs time, after 22,500 injections binned with 2 × 10−7 s (b) and 1 × 10−5 s (c). The inset in c shows the local lifetime observed during the non-exponential decay with the standard error indicated by the shaded area. The red curve in c is the theoretical prediction for the number of molecular ions as a function of time, with the initial populations estimated by an approximate overlap argument as explained in the Methods section.
