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Optical trapping of anti-hydrogen towards an atomic anti-clock

Atomic Physics 2017-10-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Anti-Matter Factory at CERN is gearing up, commissioning of the Extra Low ENergy Antiprotons (ELENA) ring is ongoing and the first anti-protons are foreseen to circulate in the decelerator very soon. The unprecedented flux of low energy antiprotons delivered by ELENA will open a new era for precision tests with antimatter including laser and microwave spectroscopy and tests of its gravitational behaviour. Here we propose a scheme to load the ultra cold anti-hydrogen atoms that will be produced by the GBAR experiment in an optical lattice tuned at the magic wavelength of the 1S-2S transition in order to measure this interval at a level comparable or even better than its matter counter part. This will provide the most sensitive test of CPT symmetry parametrised in the framework of the Standard Model Extension.

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@article{arxiv.1707.02214,
  title  = {Optical trapping of anti-hydrogen towards an atomic anti-clock},
  author = {P. Crivelli and N. Kolachevsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.02214},
  year   = {2017}
}

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7 pages, 2 Figures