Amsler, Claude; Ariga, Akitaka; Ariga, Tomoko; Ereditato, Antonio; Kawada, Jiro; Kimura, Mitsuhiro; Pistillo, Ciro; Scampoli, Paola; Storey, James William (2014). AEgIS experiment: Towards antihydrogen beam production for antimatter gravity measurements. European physical journal. D, D68(3), p. 41. EDP Sciences 10.1140/epjd/e2013-40690-3
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AEgIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) is an experiment that aims to perform the first direct measurement of the gravitational acceleration g of antihydrogen in the Earth’s field. A cold antihydrogen beam will be produced by charge exchange reaction between cold antiprotons and positronium excited in Rydberg states. Rydberg positronium (with quantum number n between 20 and 30) will be produced by a two steps laser excitation. The antihydrogen beam, after being accelerated by Stark effect, will fly through the gratings of a moir´e deflectometer. The deflection of the horizontal beam due to its free fall will be measured by a position sensitive detector. It is estimated that the detection of about 103 antihydrogen atoms is required to determine the gravitational acceleration with a precision of 1%. In this report an overview of the AEgIS experiment is presented and its current status is described. Details on the production of slow positronium and its excitation with lasers are discussed.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Amsler, Claude, Ariga, Akitaka, Ariga, Tomoko, Ereditato, Antonio, Kawada, Jiro, Kimura, Mitsuhiro, Pistillo, Ciro, Scampoli, Paola, Storey, James William |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1434-6079 |
Publisher: |
EDP Sciences |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Jan Dirk Brinksma |
Date Deposited: |
21 May 2015 11:44 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:47 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1140/epjd/e2013-40690-3 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.68756 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/68756 |
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