Pulsed production of antihydrogen

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作者
Amsler, Claude [1 ]
Antonello, Massimiliano [2 ,3 ]
Belov, Alexander [4 ]
Bonomi, Germano [5 ,6 ]
Brusa, Roberto Sennen [7 ,8 ]
Caccia, Massimo [2 ,3 ]
Camper, Antoine [9 ]
Caravita, Ruggero [8 ,9 ]
Castelli, Fabrizio [3 ,10 ]
Cheinet, Patrick [11 ]
Comparat, Daniel [11 ]
Consolati, Giovanni [3 ,12 ]
Demetrio, Andrea [13 ]
Di Noto, Lea [14 ,15 ]
Doser, Michael [9 ]
Fani, Mattia [9 ,14 ,15 ]
Ferragut, Rafael [3 ,16 ]
Fesel, Julian [9 ]
Gerber, Sebastian [9 ]
Giammarchi, Marco [3 ]
Gligorova, Angela [1 ]
Gloggler, Lisa Theresa [9 ]
Guatieri, Francesco [7 ,8 ]
Haider, Stefan [9 ]
Hinterberger, Alexander [9 ]
Kellerbauer, Alban [17 ]
Khalidova, Olga [9 ]
Krasnicky, Daniel [15 ]
Lagomarsino, Vittorio [15 ]
Malbrunot, Chloe [9 ]
Mariazzi, Sebastiano [7 ,8 ]
Matveev, Viktor [4 ]
Muller, Simon [13 ]
Nebbia, Giancarlo [18 ]
Nedelec, Patrick [19 ]
Nowak, Lilian [9 ]
Oberthaler, Markus [13 ]
Oswald, Emmanuel [9 ]
Pagano, Davide [5 ,6 ]
Penasa, Luca [7 ,8 ]
Petracek, Vojtech [20 ]
Povolo, Luca [7 ,8 ]
Prelz, Francesco [3 ]
Prevedelli, Marco [21 ]
Rienacker, Benjamin [9 ]
Rohne, Ole [22 ]
Rotondi, Alberto [6 ,23 ]
Sandaker, Heidi [22 ]
Santoro, Romualdo [2 ,3 ]
Testera, Gemma [15 ]
机构
[1] Austrian Acad Sci, Stefan Meyer Inst Subat Phys, Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
[2] Univ Insubria, Dept Sci, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
[3] INFN Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[4] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia
[5] Univ Brescia, Dept Mech & Ind Engn, Via Branze 38, I-25123 Brescia, Italy
[6] INFN Pavia, Via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[7] Univ Trento, Dept Phys, Via Sommar 14, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
[8] TIFPA INFN Trento, Via Sommar 14, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
[9] CERN, Phys Dept, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[10] Univ Milan, Dept Phys Aldo Pontremoli, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[11] Univ Paris Saclay, Lab Aime Cotton, Univ Paris Sud, ENS Paris Saclay,CNRS, F-91405 Orsay, France
[12] Politecn Milan, Dept Aerosp Sci & Technol, Via La Masa 34, I-20156 Milan, Italy
[13] Heidelberg Univ, Kirchhoff Inst Phys, Neuenheimer Feld 227, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[14] Univ Genoa, Dept Phys, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[15] INFN Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[16] Politecn Milan, Dept Phys, LNESS, Via Anzani 42, I-22100 Como, Italy
[17] Max Planck Inst Nucl Phys, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
[18] INFN Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[19] Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Lyon, CNRS IN2P3, IP2I Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[20] Czech Tech Univ, Brehova 7, Prague 11519, Czech Republic
[21] Univ Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 6-2, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
[22] Univ Oslo, Dept Phys, Sem Saelandsvei 24, N-0371 Oslo, Norway
[23] Univ Pavia, Dept Phys, Via Bassi 6, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
[24] Heidelberg Univ, Dept Phys, Neuenheimer Feld 226, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[25] Univ Brescia, Dept Civil Environm Architectural Engn & Math, Via Branze 43, I-25123 Brescia, Italy
[26] ENS Univ PSL, Kastler Brossel Lab, Sorbonne Univ, CNRS,Coll France, 4 Pl Jussieu,Case 74, F-75252 Paris, France
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
ANTIMATTER GRAVITY; RYDBERG ATOMS; ANTIPROTON; PLASMA; DETECTOR; AEGIS; TRAP;
D O I
10.1038/s42005-020-00494-z
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
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 similar to 250 ns. The pulsed source is generated by the charge-exchange reaction between Rydberg positronium atoms-produced via the injection of a pulsed positron beam into a nanochanneled Si target, and excited by laser pulses-and antiprotons, trapped, cooled and manipulated in electromagnetic traps. The pulsed production enables the control of the antihydrogen temperature, the tunability of the Rydberg states, their de-excitation by pulsed lasers and the manipulation through electric field gradients. The production of pulsed antihydrogen is a major landmark in the AEgIS experiment to perform direct measurements of the validity of the Weak Equivalence Principle for antimatter.
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