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arxiv: 1105.0037 · v1 · pith:HIYT4EIMnew · submitted 2011-04-30 · ⚛️ physics.atom-ph · hep-ex· physics.plasm-ph

Towards Antihydrogen Trapping and Spectroscopy at ALPHA

Eoin Butler , Gorm. B. Andresen , Mohammad. D. Ashkezari , Marcelo Baquero-Ruiz , William Bertsche , Paul D. Bowe , Crystal C. Bray , Claudio L. Cesar
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keywords antihydrogenantiprotonalphameasurespectroscopytrapaimsannihilation
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Spectroscopy of antihydrogen has the potential to yield high-precision tests of the CPT theorem and shed light on the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. The ALPHA antihydrogen trap at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator aims to prepare a sample of antihydrogen atoms confined in an octupole-based Ioffe trap and to measure the frequency of several atomic transitions. We describe our techniques to directly measure the antiproton temperature and a new technique to cool them to below 10 K. We also show how our unique position-sensitive annihilation detector provides us with a highly sensitive method of identifying antiproton annihilations and effectively rejecting the cosmic-ray background.

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