Towards Antihydrogen Trapping and Spectroscopy at ALPHA
| Autor: | Butler, Eoin, Andresen, Gorm. B., Ashkezari, Mohammad. D., Baquero-Ruiz, Marcelo, Bertsche, William, Bowe, Paul D., Bray, Crystal C., Cesar, Claudio L., Chapman, Steven, Charlton, Michael, Fajans, Joel, Friesen, Tim, Fujiwara, Makoto C., Gill, David R., Hangst, Jeffrey S., Hardy, Walter N., Hayano, Ruyugo S., Hayden, Michael E., Humphries, Andrew J., Hydomako, Richard, Jonsell, Svante, Kurchaninov, Leonid, Lambo, Ricardo, Madsen, Niels, Menary, Scott, Nolan, Paul, Olchanski, Konstantin, Olin, Art, Povilus, Alexander, Pusa, Petteri, Robicheaux, Francis, Sarid, Eli, Silveira, Daniel M., So, Chukman, Storey, James W., Thompson, Robert I., van der Werf, Dirk P., Wilding, Dean, Wurtele, Jonathan S., Yamazaki, Yasunori |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10751-011-0299-3 |
| Popis: | Spectroscopy of antihydrogen has the potential to yield high-precision tests of the CPT theorem and shed light on the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. The ALPHA antihydrogen trap at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator aims to prepare a sample of antihydrogen atoms confined in an octupole-based Ioffe trap and to measure the frequency of several atomic transitions. We describe our techniques to directly measure the antiproton temperature and a new technique to cool them to below 10 K. We also show how our unique position-sensitive annihilation detector provides us with a highly sensitive method of identifying antiproton annihilations and effectively rejecting the cosmic-ray background. Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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