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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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AEgIS Experiment: Status & Outlook
/ Lansonneur, P (Lyon, IPN) ; Aghion, S (Milan, Polytech. ; INFN, Milan) ; Amsler, C (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Bonomi, G (U. Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Caravita, R (Genoa U. ; INFN, Genoa) ; Castelli, F (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) ; Cerchiari, G (Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst.) ; Comparat, D (LAC, Orsay) et al.
The AEGIS experiment 1 (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) is planned to perform the first measurement of the gravitational acceleration on antimatter by observing the free fall of antihydrogen atoms. By combining techniques based on recent developments in the production of positronium and its laser excitation to Rydberg states, such a study seems indeed to be feasible for neutral antimatter. [...]
2017 - 6 p.
- Published in : , pp. 87-92
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In : 52nd Rencontres de Moriond on Gravitation, La Thuile, Italy, 25 Mar - 1 Apr 2017, pp.87-92
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Protocol for pulsed antihydrogen production in the AE$\overline{g}$IS apparatus
/ Tietje, I C (CERN ; Berlin, Tech. U.) ; Amsler, C (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Antonello, M (Insubria U., Como ; INFN, Milan) ; Belov, A (Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, G (INFM, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, M (Insubria U., Como ; INFN, Milan) ; Camper, A (CERN) ; Caravita, R (TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Castelli, F (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) et al.
The AEḡIS collaboration’s main goal is to measure the acceleration of antihydrogen it ($\textit{H}$) due to gravity. The experimental scheme is to form a pulsed beam whose vertical deflection is then measured by means of a moiré deflectometer [1]. [...]
2020 - 12 p.
- Published in : J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1612 (2020) 012025
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In : 18th Symmetries in Science, Bregenz, Austria, 4 - 9 Aug 2019, pp.012025
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Experiments with low-energy antimatter
/ Consolati, G (Milan Polytechnic ; INFN, Milan) ; Aghion, S (Milan Polytechnic ; INFN, Milan) ; Amsler, C (Bern U., LHEP) ; Ariga, A (Bern U., LHEP) ; Ariga, T (Bern U., LHEP) ; Belov, A (Moscow, INR) ; Bonomi, G (INFM, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Bräunig, P (Kirchhoff Inst. Phys.) ; Bremer, J (CERN) ; Brusa, R S (INFN, Padua ; Trento U. ; INFN, Trento) et al.
Investigations on antimatter allow us to shed light on fundamental issues of contemporary physics. The only antiatom presently available, antihydrogen, is produced making use of the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility at CERN. [...]
2015 - 7 p.
- Published in : EPJ Web Conf. 96 (2015) 01007
EDP Sciences Open Access article: PDF;
In : Dark Matter, Hadron Physics and Fusion Physics, Messina, Italy, 24 - 26 Sep 2014, pp.01007
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Gravity and antimatter: the AEgIS experiment at CERN
/ Pagano, D (INFM, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Aghion, S (Bergen U. ; INFN, Milan) ; Amsler, C (Stefan Meyer Inst. Subatomare Phys.) ; Bonomi, G (INFM, Brescia ; INFN, Pavia) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Caccia, M (INFN, Milan ; Insubria U., Como) ; Caravita, R (CERN) ; Castelli, F (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) ; Cerchiari, G (Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst.) ; Comparat, D (LAC, Orsay) et al.
From the experimental point of view, very little is known about the gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter. In particular, the Weak Equivalence Principle, which is of paramount importance for the General Relativity, has not yet been directly probed with antimatter. [...]
2020 - 5 p.
- Published in : J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1342 (2020) 012016
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In : 15th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 24 - 28 July 2017, pp.012016
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Overview of recent work on laser excitation of positronium for the formation of antihydrogen
/ Yzombard, P (LAC, Orsay) ; Amsler, C (Bern U., LHEP) ; Ariga, T (Bern U., LHEP) ; Bonomi, G (Brescia U. ; INFN, Pavia) ; Bräunig, P (Kirchhoff Inst. Phys.) ; Brusa, R S (Trento U. ; TIFPA-INFN, Trento) ; Cabaret, L (LAC, Orsay) ; Caccia, M (INFN, Milan) ; Caravita, R (Genoa U. ; INFN, Genoa ; CERN) ; Castelli, F (INFN, Milan ; Milan U.) et al.
The AEgIS experiment carried out at CERN aims to form a cold antihydrogen beam to perform precision studies on gravity. A key ingredient is the creation of antihydrogen via a charge-exchange process between trapped antiprotons and Rydberg excited positronium atoms (Ps). [...]
2017 - 11 p.
- Published in : JPS Conf. Proc. 18 (2017) 011026
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In : 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics, Kanazawa, Japan, 6 - 11 Mar 2016, pp.011026
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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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