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 …

Pulsed production of antihydrogen

C Amsler, M Antonello, A Belov, G Bonomi… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Antihydrogen atoms with K or sub-K temperature are a powerful tool to precisely probe the
validity of fundamental physics laws and the design of highly sensitive experiments needs …

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 …

Prospects for measuring the gravitational free-fall of antihydrogen with emulsion detectors

S Aghion, O Ahlén, C Amsler, A Ariga… - Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The main goal of the AEgIS experiment at CERN is to test the weak equivalence principle for
antimatter. AEgIS will measure the free-fall of an antihydrogen beam traversing a …

The aegis experiment

G Testera, S Aghion, C Amsler, A Ariga, T Ariga… - Hyperfine …, 2015 - Springer
The AEgIS experiment is presently almost completely installed at CERN. It is currently taking
data with antiprotons, electrons and positrons. The apparatus is designed to form a cold …

Comparison of classical and quantum models of anti-hydrogen formation through charge exchange

D Krasnicky, G Testera, N Zurlo - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We compare classical and quantum predictions of the cross section for anti-hydrogen
formation by charge exchange between Rydberg positronium and antiprotons as a function …

Measuring with , progress and perspectives

D Krasnický, S Aghion, O Ahlén, C Amsler… - … Journal of Modern …, 2014 - World Scientific
experiment's main goal is to measure the local gravitational acceleration of antihydrogen
and thus perform a direct test of the weak equivalence principle with antimatter. In the first …

Positronium emission and cooling in reflection and transmission from thin meso-structured silica films

SL Andersen, DB Cassidy, J Chevallier… - Journal of Physics B …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Measurements of the positronium (Ps) energy and formation fraction in reflection and
transmission from a thin meso-structured silica target have been conducted using single …

AEgIS experiment commissioning at CERN

D Krasnický, S Aghion, C Amsler, A Ariga… - AIP Conference …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The AEgIS Experiment is an international collaboration based at CERN whose aim is to
perform the first direct measurement of the gravitational acceleration g of antihydrogen in the …

Detection of low energy antiproton annihilations in a segmented silicon detector

S Aghion, O Ahlén, AS Belov, G Bonomi… - Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of the AE bar g IS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN, is to
measure directly the Earth's gravitational acceleration on antimatter by measuring the free …