Pulsed production of antihydrogen

Autor: G. Nebbia, Marco Prevedelli, M. Antonello, I. C. Tietje, B. Rienäcker, Daniel Comparat, Alberto Rotondi, M. Fanì, Sebastiano Mariazzi, O. Khalidova, Roberto S. Brusa, Nicola Zurlo, Davide Pagano, A. Camper, S.R. Müller, Markus K. Oberthaler, V. Petracek, Ole Røhne, C. Zimmer, Patrick Nedelec, Giovanni Consolati, Valerio Toso, Chloé Malbrunot, A. Hinterberger, Germano Bonomi, Lea Di Noto, P. Cheinet, Rafael Ferragut, Luca Povolo, P. Yzombard, Marco Giammarchi, Lilian Nowak, F. Prelz, J. Fesel, Sebastian Gerber, Ruggero Caravita, Emmanuel Oswald, Heidi Sandaker, Romualdo Santoro, Alban Kellerbauer, A. S. Belov, Luca Penasa, F. Guatieri, Angela Gligorova, Lisa Theresa Glöggler, Viktor Matveev, T. Wolz, Claude Amsler, D. Krasnický, A. Demetrio, G. Testera, Fabrizio Castelli, Michael Doser, S. Haider, Massimo Caccia, V. Lagomarsino
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (LAC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-École normale supérieure - Cachan (ENS Cachan), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB [Collège de France]), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Amsler, Claude, Antonello, Massimiliano, Belov, Alexander, Bonomi, Germano, Brusa, Roberto Sennen, Caccia, Massimo, Camper, Antoine, Caravita, Ruggero, Castelli, Fabrizio, Cheinet, Patrick, Comparat, Daniel, Consolati, Giovanni, Demetrio, Andrea, Di Noto, Lea, Doser, Michael, Fanì, Mattia, Ferragut, Rafael, Fesel, Julian, Gerber, Sebastian, Giammarchi, Marco, Gligorova, Angela, Glöggler, Lisa Theresa, Guatieri, Francesco, Haider, Stefan, Hinterberger, Alexander, Kellerbauer, Alban, Khalidova, Olga, Krasnický, Daniel, Lagomarsino, Vittorio, Malbrunot, Chloé, Mariazzi, Sebastiano, Matveev, Viktor, Müller, Simon, Nebbia, Giancarlo, Nedelec, Patrick, Nowak, Lilian, Oberthaler, Marku, Oswald, Emmanuel, Pagano, Davide, Penasa, Luca, Petracek, Vojtech, Povolo, Luca, Prelz, Francesco, Prevedelli, Marco, Rienäcker, Benjamin, Røhne, Ole, Rotondi, Alberto, Sandaker, Heidi, Santoro, Romualdo, Testera, Gemma, Tietje, Ingmari, Toso, Valerio, Wolz, Tim, Yzombard, Pauline, Zimmer, Christian, Zurlo, Nicola
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Physics::General Physics
experimental methods
QC1-999
positronium
antihydrogen: annihilation
General Physics and Astronomy
Astrophysics
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
law.invention
Positronium
antihydrogen: energy levels
symbols.namesake
law
0103 physical sciences
Atom
Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters
antimatter
[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]
antihydrogen: temperature
Physics::Atomic Physics
010306 general physics
Antihydrogen
Physics
laser: pulsed
Antimatter gravity
atom
antihydrogen: production
Laser
charge exchange
anti-p
electric field
positron: beam
QB460-466
electromagnetic
injection
equivalence principle
Antiproton
Antimatter
Excited state
Rydberg formula
symbols
Atomic physics
Particle Physics - Experiment
experimental results
Zdroj: Commun.Phys.
Commun.Phys., 2021, 4 (1), pp.19. ⟨10.1038/s42005-020-00494-z⟩
Communications Physics
Communications Physics, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
ISSN: 2399-3650
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-020-00494-z⟩
Popis: Antihydrogen atoms with K or sub-K temperature are a powerful tool to precisely probe the validity of fundamental physics laws and the design of highly sensitive experiments needs antihydrogen with controllable and well defined conditions. We present here experimental results on the production of antihydrogen in a pulsed mode in which the time when 90% of the atoms are produced is known with an uncertainty of ~250 ns. The pulsed source is generated by the charge-exchange reaction between Rydberg positronium atoms—produced via the injection of a pulsed positron beam into a nanochanneled Si target, and excited by laser pulses—and antiprotons, trapped, cooled and manipulated in electromagnetic traps. The pulsed production enables the control of the antihydrogen temperature, the tunability of the Rydberg states, their de-excitation by pulsed lasers and the manipulation through electric field gradients. The production of pulsed antihydrogen is a major landmark in the AE $$\bar{g}$$ IS experiment to perform direct measurements of the validity of the Weak Equivalence Principle for antimatter. Antihydrogen atoms are a unique type of antimatter that can be used to probe small violations of fundamental laws of physics. The authors present experimental results obtained with the AEgIS project at CERN for the production of antihydrogen atoms (Hbar) via charge exchange with laser excited positronium that allow for precise timing of Hbar production.
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