Published May 2018
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Journal article
Imaging antimatter with a Micromegas detector
- 1. Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1090 (Austria)
- 2. ETH Zürich, Institute for Particle Physics, CH-8093 Zürich (Switzerland)
- 3. Ulmer Initiative Research Unit, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198 (Japan)
- 4. Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 739-8530 (Japan)
- 5. Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN (Japan)
Description
The ASACUSA collaboration aims at measuring the ground state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen for probing fundamental symmetries. A cryogenic trap for mixing antiprotons and positrons serves as an antihydrogen source for in-flight spectroscopy. In order to be able to monitor the antihydrogen formation process, a dedicated Micromegas tracking detector has been designed and built to record the annihilation distribution in the trap. In this paper, we present the first results from antiproton annihilation data recorded with the Micromegas, together with a description of the event reconstruction algorithm.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2018.02.026Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nimb.2018.02.026;
- PII
- S0168583X1830140X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
- Journal Volume
- 422
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-6
- ISSN
- 0168-583X
- CODEN
- NIMBEU
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 52118993
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGORITHMS; ANNIHILATION; ANTIPROTONS; CRYOGENICS; DESIGN; DISTRIBUTION; GROUND STATES; MONITORS; POSITRONS; TRAPS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTIBARYONS; ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTINUCLEI; ANTINUCLEONS; ANTIPARTICLES; BARYONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY LEVELS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEI; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PROTONS
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- Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.