Detecting Antihydrogen: The Challenges and the Applications
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2015-06-25 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Atomic Physics
Abstract
ATHENA's first detection of cold antihydrogen atoms relied on their annihilation signatures in a sophisticated particle detector. We will review the features of the ATHENA detector and its applications in trap physics. The detector for a new experiment ALPHA will have considerable challenges due to increased material thickness in the trap apparatus as well as field non-uniformity. Our studies indicate that annihilation vertex imaging should be still possible despite these challenges. An alternative method for trapped antihydrogen, via electron impact ionization, will be also discussed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0507082,
title = {Detecting Antihydrogen: The Challenges and the Applications},
author = {Makoto C. Fujiwara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0507082},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Invited paper at International Workshop on Physics with Ultra-Slow Antiprotons, RIKEN, Japan, March 2005. To be published in AIP Conference Proceedings