Physics at CERN's antiproton decelerator

M Hori, J Walz - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility of CERN began operation in 1999 to serve
experiments for studies of CPT invariance by precision laser and microwave spectroscopy of …

[HTML][HTML] Limits on antiproton-nuclei annihilation cross sections at∼ 125 keV

H Aghai-Khozani, D Barna, M Corradini… - Nuclear Physics A, 2021 - Elsevier
Some experimental limits on the annihilation cross sections σ ann of antiprotons on carbon,
palladium, and platinum targets were determined at the previously unexplored kinetic …

Large nuclear scattering effects in antiproton transmission through polymer and metal-coated foils

K Nordlund, M Hori, D Sundholm - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We simulate the deceleration and transmission of antiprotons with keV-scale kinetic
energies through polymer foils using a molecular dynamics approach, which includes a …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of the antiproton–nucleus annihilation cross-section at low energy

H Aghai-Khozani, A Bianconi, M Corradini, R Hayano… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
Systematic measurements of the annihilation cross sections of low energy antinucleons
were performed at CERN in the 80's and 90's. However the antiproton data on medium …

Instrumentation for measurement of in-flight annihilations of 130 keV antiprotons on thin target foils

K Todoroki, D Barna, RS Hayano… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
We describe the instrumentation for an experiment to measure the cross sections of
antiprotons with kinetic energies of 130±10 keV annihilating on carbon, palladium, and …

Experimental apparatus for annihilation cross-section measurements of low energy antiprotons

M Corradini, R Hayano, M Hori, M Leali… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The nuclear physics program of the ASACUSA experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator
(AD) at CERN is concerned with the measurements of antiproton-nuclei cross-sections at …

Scintillating bar detector for antiproton annihilations measurements

M Corradini, M Leali, EL Rizzini, V Mascagna… - Hyperfine …, 2015 - Springer
A detector used in two different experiments of the ASACUSA Collaboration at the CERN
Antiproton Decelerator is presented. It consists of several modules, each one made of~ 1 m …

Segmented scintillation detectors with silicon photomultiplier readout for measuring antiproton annihilations

A Sótér, K Todoroki, T Kobayashi, D Barna… - Review of Scientific …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons experiment at the
Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility of CERN constructed segmented scintillators to detect …

Lead fluoride Cherenkov detector read out by avalanche photodiodes for measuring the intensities of pulsed antiproton beams

Y Murakami, H Aghai-Khozani, M Hori - Nuclear Instruments and Methods …, 2019 - Elsevier
A Cherenkov detector based on an array of five lead fluoride (β-PbF 2) crystals of size 30
mm× 30 mm× 160 mm read out by reverse-type avalanche photodiodes (APD's) of active …

Laser spectroscopy measurements of metastable pionic helium atoms at paul scherrer institute

M Hori, H Aghai-Khozani, A Sótér, A Dax, D Barna - Few-body systems, 2021 - Springer
We review recent experiments carried out by the PiHe collaboration of the Paul Scherrer
Institute (PSI) that observed an infrared transition of three-body pionic helium atoms by laser …