CPT tests with the antihydrogen molecular ion
Abstract
High precision radio-frequency, microwave and infrared spectroscopic measurements of the antihydrogen molecular ion () compared with its normal matter counterpart provide direct tests of the CPT theorem. The sensitivity to a difference between the positron/antiproton and electron/proton mass ratios, and to a difference between the positron-antiproton and electron-proton hyperfine interactions, can exceed that obtained by comparing antihydrogen with hydrogen by several orders of magnitude. Practical schemes are outlined for measurements on a single ion in a cryogenic Penning trap, that use non-destructive state identification by measuring the cyclotron frequency and bound-positron spin-flip frequency; and also for creating an ion and initializing its quantum state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.01514,
title = {CPT tests with the antihydrogen molecular ion},
author = {Edmund G. Myers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.01514},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Revised version for Phys Rev A(RC), with figure