Plasma and trap-based techniques for science with positrons

JR Danielson, DHE Dubin, RG Greaves… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
In recent years, there has been a wealth of new science involving low-energy antimatter (ie,
positrons and antiprotons) at energies ranging from 10 2 to less than 10-3 eV. Much of this …

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 …

Observation of the 1S–2S transition in trapped antihydrogen

M Ahmadi, BXR Alves, CJ Baker, W Bertsche, E Butler… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The spectrum of the hydrogen atom has played a central part in fundamental physics over
the past 200 years. Historical examples of its importance include the wavelength …

Confinement of antihydrogen for 1,000 seconds

Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Atoms made of a particle and an antiparticle are unstable, usually surviving less than a
microsecond. Antihydrogen, made entirely of antiparticles, is believed to be stable, and it is …

Description and first application of a new technique to measure the gravitational mass of antihydrogen

AE Charman - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
Physicists have long wondered whether the gravitational interactions between matter and
antimatter might be different from those between matter and itself. Although there are many …

Trapped antihydrogen in its ground state

G Gabrielse, R Kalra, WS Kolthammer, R McConnell… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
Antihydrogen atoms (H¯) are confined in an Ioffe trap for 15–1000 s—long enough to ensure
that they reach their ground state. Though reproducibility challenges remain in making large …

PUMA, antiProton unstable matter annihilation: PUMA collaboration

T Aumann, W Bartmann, O Boine-Frankenheim… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract PUMA, antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation, is a nuclear-physics experiment at
CERN aiming at probing the surface properties of stable and rare isotopes by use of low …

Resonant quantum transitions in trapped antihydrogen atoms

C Amole, MD Ashkezari, M Baquero-Ruiz, W Bertsche… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The hydrogen atom is one of the most important and influential model systems in modern
physics. Attempts to understand its spectrum are inextricably linked to the early history and …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma and trap-based techniques for science with antimatter

J Fajans, CM Surko - Physics of plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Positrons (ie, antielectrons) find use in a wide variety of applications, and antiprotons are
required for the formation and study of antihydrogen. Available sources of these antiparticles …

[HTML][HTML] The ALPHA antihydrogen trapping apparatus

C Amole, GB Andresen, MD Ashkezari… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2014 - Elsevier
The ALPHA collaboration, based at CERN, has recently succeeded in confining cold
antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic minimum neutral atom trap and has performed the first …