Laser spectroscopy of pionic helium atoms

M Hori, H Aghai-Khozani, A Sótér, A Dax, D Barna - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Charged pions are the lightest and longest-lived mesons. Mesonic atoms are formed when
an orbital electron in an atom is replaced by a negatively charged meson. Laser …

Large nuclear scattering effects in antiproton transmission through polymer and metal-coated foils

K Nordlund, M Hori, D Sundholm - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We simulate the deceleration and transmission of antiprotons with keV-scale kinetic
energies through polymer foils using a molecular dynamics approach, which includes a …

Precision Spectroscopy of the Pionic Helium-4

ZD Bai, VI Korobov, ZC Yan, TY Shi, ZX Zhong - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The transition frequency of (n, ℓ)=(17, 16)→(16, 15) in pionic helium-4 is calculated to an
accuracy of 4 ppb (parts per billion), including relativistic and quantum electrodynamic …

Energy levels of mesonic helium in quantum electrodynamics

VI Korobov, AV Eskin, AP Martynenko, FA Martynenko - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
On the basis of the variational method we study the energy levels of pionic helium (π-e-He)
and kaonic helium (Ke-He) with an electron in the ground state and a meson in the excited …

Laser spectroscopy measurements of metastable pionic helium atoms at paul scherrer institute

M Hori, H Aghai-Khozani, A Sótér, A Dax, D Barna - Few-body systems, 2021 - Springer
We review recent experiments carried out by the PiHe collaboration of the Paul Scherrer
Institute (PSI) that observed an infrared transition of three-body pionic helium atoms by laser …

Energy Levels of Pionic and Kaonic Helium in the Variational Approach

VI Korobov, FA Martynenko, AP Martynenko… - Physics of Particles and …, 2024 - Springer
In the variational method, we study the energy levels of pionic helium and kaonic helium
with an electron in the ground state and a meson in the excited state with the principal and …

Recent results of laser spectroscopy experiments of pionic helium atoms at PSI

M Hori, H Aghai-Khozani, A Sótér, A Dax… - SciPost Physics …, 2021 - scipost.org
A review of a recent experiment carried out at PSI involving laser spectroscopy of metastable
pionic helium ($\pi {\rm^ 4He}^+\equiv\pi^{-}+{\rm^ 4He}^{2+}+ e^-$) atoms is presented. An …

[PDF][PDF] Status report of the ASACUSA experiment-progress in 2021 and plans for 2022

M Hori, E Widmann - 2022 - cds.cern.ch
PROGRESS REPORT OF THE ASACUSA AD-3 COLLABORATION Page 1 CERN-SPSC-2022-002
/ SPSC-SR-301 08/01/2022 January 8, 2022 PROGRESS REPORT OF THE ASACUSA AD-3 …

Pionic atoms in experiment

K Itahashi - Handbook of Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Springer
Discussed in this chapter is the spectroscopy of pionic atoms to analyze their properties
quantum mechanically. Pions are the lightest hadrons, and their properties have information …

Status of laser spectroscopy measurements of long-lived antiprotonic and pionic helium atoms at CERN and PSI

M Hori - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2024 - World Scientific
The results of laser spectroscopy experiments of antiprotonic helium atoms carried out at the
Antiproton Decelerator of CERN, and pionic helium atoms measured at the 590 MeV ring …