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 …

Pulsed production of antihydrogen

C Amsler, M Antonello, A Belov, G Bonomi… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
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 …

An electron-positron beam-plasma experiment

RG Greaves, CM Surko - Physical review letters, 1995 - APS
Advances in positron trapping techniques have made it possible to perform the first electron-
positron plasma experiments in a laboratory. An electron-positron beam-plasma system is …

[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 …

Evaporative cooling of antiprotons to cryogenic temperatures

GB Andresen, MD Ashkezari, M Baquero-Ruiz… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We report the application of evaporative cooling to clouds of trapped antiprotons, resulting in
plasmas with measured temperature as low as 9 K. We have modeled the evaporation …

Adiabatic cooling of antiprotons

G Gabrielse, WS Kolthammer, R McConnell… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
Adiabatic cooling is shown to be a simple and effective method to cool many charged
particles in a trap to very low temperatures. Up to 3× 10 6 p¯ are cooled to 3.5 K—10 3 times …

Compression of a mixed antiproton and electron non-neutral plasma to high densities

S Aghion, C Amsler, G Bonomi, RS Brusa… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
We describe a multi-step “rotating wall” compression of a mixed cold antiproton–electron
non-neutral plasma in a 4.46 T Penning–Malmberg trap developed in the context of the …

[HTML][HTML] Search for trapped antihydrogen

GB Andresen, MD Ashkezari, M Baquero-Ruiz… - Physics Letters B, 2011 - Elsevier
We present the results of an experiment to search for trapped antihydrogen atoms with the
ALPHA antihydrogen trap at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator. Sensitive diagnostics of the …

Thermal equilibrium of collisional non-neutral plasma in a magnetic dipole trap

P Steinbrunner, TM O'Neil, MR Stoneking… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This paper discusses thermal equilibrium states of single-species plasmas, such as pure
electron plasmas and pure positron plasmas, that are confined in a dipole trap. Thermal …

Measurements of Penning-Malmberg trap patch potentials and associated performance degradation

CJ Baker, W Bertsche, A Capra, CL Cesar… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Antiprotons created by laser ionization of antihydrogen are observed to rapidly escape the
ALPHA trap. Further, positron plasmas heat more quickly after the trap is illuminated by laser …