Plasma and trap-based techniques for science with positrons

JR Danielson, DHE Dubin, RG Greaves… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
In recent years, there has been a wealth of new science involving low-energy antimatter (ie,
positrons and antiprotons) at energies ranging from 10 2 to less than 10-3 eV. Much of this …

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 …

Torsion-balance tests of the weak equivalence principle

TA Wagner, S Schlamminger… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We briefly summarize motivations for testing the weak equivalence principle and then review
recent torsion-balance results that compare the differential accelerations of beryllium …

Observation of the 1S–2S transition in trapped antihydrogen

M Ahmadi, BXR Alves, CJ Baker, W Bertsche, E Butler… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The spectrum of the hydrogen atom has played a central part in fundamental physics over
the past 200 years. Historical examples of its importance include the wavelength …

Experimental progress in positronium laser physics

DB Cassidy - The European Physical Journal D, 2018 - Springer
The field of experimental positronium physics has advanced significantly in the last few
decades, with new areas of research driven by the development of techniques for trapping …

A source of antihydrogen for in-flight hyperfine spectroscopy

N Kuroda, S Ulmer, DJ Murtagh, S Van Gorp… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Antihydrogen, a positron bound to an antiproton, is the simplest antiatom. Its counterpart—
hydrogen—is one of the most precisely investigated and best understood systems in physics …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma and trap-based techniques for science with antimatter

J Fajans, CM Surko - Physics of plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Positrons (ie, antielectrons) find use in a wide variety of applications, and antiprotons are
required for the formation and study of antihydrogen. Available sources of these antiparticles …

“Axial” magnetic levitation using ring magnets enables simple density-based analysis, separation, and manipulation

S Ge, GM Whitesides - Analytical chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
This work describes the development of magnetic levitation (MagLev) using ring magnets
and a configuration (which we call “axial MagLev”) to remove the physical barriers to …

Prospects for comparison of matter and antimatter gravitation with ALPHA-g

WA Bertsche - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ALPHA experiment has recently entered an expansion phase of its experimental
programme, driven in part by the expected benefits of conducting experiments in the …

An experimental limit on the charge of antihydrogen

C Amole, MD Ashkezari, M Baquero-Ruiz… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The properties of antihydrogen are expected to be identical to those of hydrogen, and any
differences would constitute a profound challenge to the fundamental theories of physics …