Published October 20, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Slow Antihydrogen

  • 1. Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United Kingdom)
  • 2. IKP, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, 52425 Juelich (Germany)
  • 3. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, 85748 Garching (Germany)
  • 4. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Schellingstrasse 4/III, 80799 Munich (Germany)
  • 5. York University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 (Canada)

Description

Slow antihydrogen is now produced by two different production methods. In Method I, large numbers of H atoms are produced during positron-cooling of antiprotons within a nested Penning trap. In a just-demonstrated Method II, lasers control the production of antihydrogen atoms via charge exchange collisions. Field ionization detection makes it possible to probe the internal structure of the antihydrogen atoms being produced - most recently revealing atoms that are too tightly bound to be well described by the guiding center atom approximation. The speed of antihydrogen atoms has recently been measured for the first time. After the requested overview, the recent developments are surveyed

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
730
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 3-12
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
14. APS topical conference on atomic processes in plasmas
Dates
19-22 Apr 2004
Place
Santa Fe, NM (United States)

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(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics