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Production and study of antideuterium with the GBAR beamline

Atomic Physics 2025-03-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The potential of circulating antideuterons (d\mathrm{\overline{d}}) in the AD/ELENA facility at CERN is under active investigation. Approximately 100 d\mathrm{\overline{d}} per bunch could be delivered as a 100keV100\,\mathrm{keV} beam based on measured cross-sections. These d\mathrm{\overline{d}} could be further decelerated to 12keV12\,\mathrm{keV} using the GBAR scheme, enabling the synthesis of antideuterium (D\mathrm{\overline{D}}) via charge exchange with positronium, a technique successfully demonstrated with 6keV6\,\mathrm{keV} antiprotons for antihydrogen production. The AD/ELENA facility is currently studying the possibility of increasing the d\mathrm{\overline{d}} rate using an optimized new target geometry. Assuming this is feasible, we propose further enhancing the anti-atom production by using laser-excited positronium in the 2P2P state within a cavity, which is expected to increase the D(2S)\mathrm{\overline{D}}(2S) production cross-section by almost an order of magnitude for d\mathrm{\overline{d}} with 2keV2\,\mathrm{keV} energy. We present the projected precision for measuring the antideuterium Lamb shift and extracting the antideuteron charge radius, as a function of the beam flux.

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@article{arxiv.2410.00840,
  title  = {Production and study of antideuterium with the GBAR beamline},
  author = {Philipp Blumer and Ben Ohayon and Paolo Crivelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00840},
  year   = {2025}
}