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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Extremely cold antiprotons for antihydrogen production
L. HaarsmaJ. GröbnerH. KalinowskyW. JheWolfgang QuintK. AbdullahGerald GabrielseC. H. TsengD. Phillipssubject
Condensed Matter::Quantum GasesPhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsPenning trapAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsNuclear physicsTrap (computing)Low energyAntiprotonHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentPhysics::Atomic PhysicsPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryAtomic physicsNuclear ExperimentAntihydrogendescription
The possibility to produce, trap and study antihydrogen atoms rests upon the recent availability of extremely cold antiprotons in a Penning trap. Over the last five years, our TRAP Collaboration has slowed, cooled and stored antiprotons at energies 1010 lower than was previously possible. The storage time exceeds 3.4 months despite the extremely low energy, which corresponds to 4.2 K in temperature units. The first example of measurements which become possible with extremely cold antiprotons is a comparison of the antiproton inertial masses which shows they are the same to a fractional accuracy of 4×10−8. (This is 1000 times more accurate than previous comparisons and large additional increases in accuracy are anticipated.) To increase the number of trapped antiprotons available for antihydrogen production, we have demonstrated that we can accumulate or “stack” antiprotons cooled from successive pulsed injections into our trap.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-12-01 | Hyperfine Interactions |