Production and study of antideuterium with the GBAR beamline
Abstract
The potential of circulating antideuterons () in the AD/ELENA facility at CERN is under active investigation. Approximately 100 per bunch could be delivered as a beam based on measured cross-sections. These could be further decelerated to using the GBAR scheme, enabling the synthesis of antideuterium () via charge exchange with positronium, a technique successfully demonstrated with antiprotons for antihydrogen production. The AD/ELENA facility is currently studying the possibility of increasing the 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 state within a cavity, which is expected to increase the production cross-section by almost an order of magnitude for with 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}
}