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Pulsed Production of Antihydrogen in AEgIS
/ AEgIS Collaboration
Cold antihydrogen atoms are a powerful tool to probe the validity of fundamental physics laws, and it's clear that colder atoms, generally speaking, allow an increased level of precision.
After the first production of cold antihydrogen ($\bar{H}$) in 2002, experimental efforts have progressed continuously (trapping, beam formation, spectroscopy), with competitive results already achieved by adapting to cold antiatoms techniques previously well developed for ordinary atoms. Unfortunately, the number of $\bar{H}$ atoms that can be produced in dedicated experiments is many orders of magnitude smaller than available hydrogen atoms, which are at hand in large amount, so the development of novel techniques that allow the production of $\bar{H}$ with well defined conditions (and possibly control its formation time and energy levels) is essential to improve the sensitivity of the methods applied by the different experiments.
We present here the first experimental results concerning the production of $\bar{H}$ in a pulsed mode where the time when 90\% of
the atoms are produced is known with an uncertainty of around 250~ns. [...]
2022 - 7 p.
- Published in : PoS DISCRETE2020-2021 (2022) 079
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In : 7th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE 2020-2021), Bergen, Norway, 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2021, pp.079
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Search for dark matter axions with CAST-CAPP
/ Adair, C.M. (British Columbia U.) ; Altenmüller, K. (Zaragoza U.) ; Anastassopoulos, V. (Patras U.) ; Cuendis, S. Arguedas (CERN) ; Baier, J. (Freiburg U.) ; Barth, K. (CERN) ; Belov, A. (Moscow, INR) ; Bozicevic, D. (Rijeka U.) ; Bräuninger, H. (Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE) ; Cantatore, G. (INFN, Trieste ; Trieste U.) et al.
The CAST-CAPP axion haloscope, operating at CERN inside the CAST dipole magnet, has searched for axions in the 19.74 $\mu$eV to 22.47 $\mu$eV mass range. The detection concept follows the Sikivie haloscope principle, where Dark Matter axions convert into photons within a resonator immersed in a magnetic field. [...]
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2022-10-19 - 9 p.
- Published in : Nature Commun. 13 (2022) 6180
Fulltext: 2211.02902 - PDF; s41467-022-33913-6 - PDF;
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Positronium Rydberg excitation diagnostic in a 1T cryogenic environment
/ Caravita, R (CERN) ; Mariazzi, S (Trento U. ; INFN, Trento) ; Aghion, S (Milan Polytechnic ; INFN, Milan) ; Amsler, C (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Antonello, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Belov, A (Mainz U., Inst. Phys. ; Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, G (Brescia U. ; INFN, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Camper, A (CERN) et al.
Forming a pulsed beam of cold antihydrogen using charge-exchange with Rydberg positronium (Ps) is the goal of the AEḡIS collaboration, which aims to a first gravity measurement on neutral antimatter. Recently achieved results in Ps formation and laser spectroscopy in the main AEḡIS apparatus are summarized. [...]
2019 - 6 p.
- Published in : AIP Conf. Proc. 2182 (2019) 030002
In : 18th International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-18): Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy-Fundamentals, Techniques ad Applications, Orlando, United States, 19 - 24 Feb 2018, pp.030002
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Imaging a positronium cloud in a 1 Tesla
/ Camper, Antoine (CERN) ; Aghion, Stefano (Milan Polytechnic ; INFN, Milan) ; Amsler, Claude (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Antonello, Massimiliano (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Belov, Alexander (Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, Germano (INFM, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, Roberto (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, Massimo (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Caravita, Ruggero (CERN) ; Castelli, Fabrizio (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) et al.
We report on recent developments in positronium work in the frame of antihydrogen production through charge exchange in the AEgIS collaboration [1]. In particular, we present a new technique based on spatially imaging a cloud of positronium by collecting the positrons emitted by photoionization. [...]
2019 - 7 p.
- Published in : EPJ Web Conf. 198 (2019) 00004
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In : Quantum Technology International Conference 2018, Paris, France, 5 - 7 Sep 2018, pp.00004
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Pulsed production of antihydrogen
/ Amsler, Claude (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Antonello, Massimiliano (Insubria U., Como ; INFN, Milan) ; Belov, Alexander (Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, Germano (U. Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, Roberto Sennen (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, Massimo (Insubria U., Como ; INFN, Milan) ; Camper, Antoine (CERN) ; Caravita, Ruggero (TIFPA-INFN, Trento ; CERN) ; Castelli, Fabrizio (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) ; Cheinet, Patrick (LAC, Orsay) et al.
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. [...]
2021 - 11 p.
- Published in : Commun. Phys. 4 (2021) 19
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Developments for pulsed antihydrogen production towards direct gravitational measurement on antimatter
/ Fanì, M (CERN ; INFN, Genoa ; Genoa U.) ; Antonello, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Belov, A (Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, G (INFM, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Camper, A (CERN) ; Caravita, R (TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Castelli, F (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) ; Comparat, D (LAC, Orsay) et al.
A main scientific goal of the experiment is the direct measurement of the Earth’s local gravitational acceleration g on antihydrogen. The Weak Equivalence Principle is a foundation of General Relativity. [...]
2020 - 9 p.
- Published in : Phys. Scr. 95 (2020) 114001
In : 8th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2019), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 21 - 29 Aug 2019, pp.114001
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Hybrid Imaging and Timing Ps Laser Excitation Diagnostics for Pulsed Antihydrogen Production
/ Caravita, R (CERN) ; Antonello, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Belov, A (Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, G (Brescia U. ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Camper, A (CERN) ; Castelli, F (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) ; Comparat, D (LAC, Orsay) ; Consolati, G (INFN, Milan ; Milan Polytechnic) et al.
In this work we present a hybrid detection method providing simultaneous imaging and timing information suitable for fully monitoring positronium (Ps) formation, its laser excitation, and its spatial propagation for the first trials of pulsed antihydrogen ($\bar{H}$) production through a charge-exchange reaction with trapped antiprotons ($\bar{p}$). This combined method, based on the synchronous acquisition of an EJ-200 scintillation detector and a microchannel plate (MCP) detector with a dual readout (phosphor screen image and electrical pick-up signal), allows all relevant events in the experiment to be accurately determined in time while allowing high resolution images of e$^{+}$ from Ps laser photodissociations to be acquired. [...]
2020 - 5 p.
- Published in : Acta Phys. Pol. A 137 (2020) 96-100
In : 15th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques and Applications, Prague, Czechia, 2-6 Sep 2019, pp.96-100
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Techniques for Production and Detection of $2^3S$ Positronium
/ Mariazzi, S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caravita, R (CERN) ; Vespertini, A (Trento U.) ; Camper, A (CERN) ; Rienacker, B (CERN) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Antonello, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Belov, A (Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, G (Brescia U. ; INFN, Pavia) ; Caccia, M (INFN, Milan ; INFM, Como) et al.
In this work, we show recent measurements of $2^{3}S$ long-lived positronium production via spontaneous decay from the 3 3P level. The possibility to tune the velocity of the $2^{3}S$ positronium, excited following this scheme, is presented [...]
2020 - 5 p.
- Published in : Acta Phys. Pol. A 137 (2020) 91-95
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In : 15th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques and Applications, Prague, Czechia, 2-6 Sep 2019, pp.91-95
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