Characterization of an oriented metastable atom source based on a magnetic hexapole D. Watanabe, H. Ohoyama, T. Matsumura and T. Kasai Eur. Phys. J. D, 38 1 (2006) 219-223 Published online: 08 February 2006 DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2006-00028-0