Emerging science and technology of antimatter plasmas and trap-based beams

CM Surko, RG Greaves - Physics of Plasmas, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Progress in the ability to accumulate and cool positrons and antiprotons is enabling new
scientific and technological opportunities. The driver for this work is plasma physics research …

Physics at CERN's antiproton decelerator

M Hori, J Walz - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility of CERN began operation in 1999 to serve
experiments for studies of CPT invariance by precision laser and microwave spectroscopy of …

Trapped antihydrogen

GB Andresen, MD Ashkezari, M Baquero-Ruiz… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Antimatter was first predicted in 1931, by Dirac. Work with high-energy antiparticles is now
commonplace, and anti-electrons are used regularly in the medical technique of positron …

Cross section for Rydberg antihydrogen production via charge exchange between Rydberg positroniums and antiprotons in a magnetic field

D Krasnický, R Caravita, C Canali, G Testera - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
The antihydrogen formation by charge exchange between cold antiprotons and Rydberg
positronium P s* is studied by using the classical trajectory Monte Carlo method. In the …

Antimatter plasmas in a multipole trap for antihydrogen

G Andresen, W Bertsche, A Boston, PD Bowe… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
We have demonstrated storage of plasmas of the charged constituents of the antihydrogen
atom, antiprotons and positrons, in a Penning trap surrounded by a minimum-B magnetic …

Stability of few-charge systems in quantum mechanics

EAG Armour, JM Richard, K Varga - Physics Reports, 2005 - Elsevier
We consider non-relativistic systems in quantum mechanics interacting through the
Coulomb potential, and discuss the existence of bound states which are stable against …

Atoms made entirely of antimatter: two methods produce slow antihydrogen

G Gabrielse - Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2005 - Elsevier
An antihydrogen (H¯) atom—a positron (e+) in orbit about an antiproton (p¯)—is the
simplest atom made entirely of antimatter. Producing H¯ atoms that are cold enough to be …

Spatial distribution of cold antihydrogen formation

N Madsen, M Amoretti, C Amsler, G Bonomi, PD Bowe… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
Antihydrogen is formed when antiprotons are mixed with cold positrons in a nested Penning
trap. We present experimental evidence, obtained using our antihydrogen annihilation …

Cold and ultracold Rydberg atoms in strong magnetic fields

T Pohl, HR Sadeghpour, P Schmelcher - Physics Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
Cold Rydberg atoms exposed to strong magnetic fields possess unique properties which
open the pathway for an intriguing many-body dynamics taking place in Rydberg gases …

Atomic processes in antihydrogen experiments: a theoretical and computational perspective

F Robicheaux - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
One possible route for a precision test of the CPT theorem is to perform spectroscopic
measurements on the antihydrogen atom and compare the results with those from hydrogen …