Towards the measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen

被引:3
作者
Juhasz, Bertalan [1 ]
机构
[1] Austrian Acad Sci, Stefan Meyer Inst Subatom Phys, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
来源
HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS | 2012年 / 212卷 / 1-3期
关键词
Antihydrogen; Spectroscopy; Hyperfine splitting; CPT symmetry; MAGNETIC-MOMENT; HYDROGEN;
D O I
10.1007/s10751-011-0389-2
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学]; O56 [分子物理学、原子物理学];
学科分类号
070203 ; 070304 ; 081704 ; 1406 ;
摘要
The ASACUSA collaboration at the Antiproton Decelerator of CERN is planning to measure the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen using an atomic beam line, which will consist of a superconducting cusp trap as a source of partially polarized antihydrogen atoms, a radiofrequency spin-flip cavity, a superconducting sextupole magnet as spin analyser, and an antihydrogen detector. This will be a measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment, and also a test of the CPT invariance. Monte Carlo simulations predict that the antihydrogen ground-state hyperfine splitting can be determined with a relative precision of better than similar to 10(-6). The first preliminary measurements of the hyperfine transitions will start in 2011.
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