We report on the production of a novel cold mixture of fermionic 53Cr
and 6Li atoms delivered by two Zeeman-slowed atomic beams and collected
within a magneto-optical trap (MOT). For lithium, we obtain clouds of up to 4108 atoms at temperatures of about 500μK. A gray optical molasses
stage allows us to decrease the gas temperature down to 45(5)μK. For
chromium, we obtain MOTs comprising up to 1.5106 atoms. The availability
of magnetically trappable metastable D-states, from which P-state atoms can
radiatively decay onto, enables to accumulate into the MOT quadrupole samples
of up to 10753Cr atoms. After repumping D-state atoms back into the
cooling cycle, a final cooling stage decreases the chromium temperature down to
145(5)μK. While the presence of a lithium MOT decreases the lifetime of
magnetically trapped 53Cr atoms, we obtain, within a 5 seconds duty cycle,
samples of about 4106 chromium and 1.5108 lithium atoms. Our work
provides a crucial step towards the production of degenerate Cr-Li Fermi
mixtures.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure