Antihydrogen production schemes

The formation of neutral antihydrogen requires the blending of high energy physics technology and atomic physics principles. One approach to the problem is to employ laser stimulated radiative recombination of positrons and antiprotons to form H-bar atoms in excited states. This can be implemented using the merged beam approach which allows very low energy collisions to occcur between fast moving collidants. Methods have been devised for overcoming the problems associated with the survival of the H-bar atoms and these will be discussed. Plans for a simulation experiment employing normal matter analogs will be presented