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- Title
AEgIS experiment: Towards antihydrogen beam production for antimatter gravity measurements.
- Authors
Mariazzi, Sebastiano; Aghion, Stefano; Amsler, Claude; Ariga, Akitaka; Ariga, Tomoko; Belov, Alexandre S.; Bonomi, Germano; Bräunig, Philippe; Brusa, Roberto S.; Bremer, Johan; Cabaret, Louis; Canali, Carlo; Caravita, Ruggero; Castelli, Fabrizio; Cerchiari, Giovanni; Cialdi, Simone; Comparat, Daniel; Consolati, Giovanni; Dassa, Luca; Derking, Jan Hendrik
- Abstract
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 moiré 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 10 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.
- Subjects
ANTIHYDROGEN; ANTIMATTER; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTROMETRY; ELECTRIC charge; ACCELERATION (Mechanics)
- Publication
European Physical Journal D (EPJ D), 2014, Vol 68, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1434-6060
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epjd/e2013-40690-3