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CPT tests with the antihydrogen molecular ion

Atomic Physics 2018-07-30 v2

Abstract

High precision radio-frequency, microwave and infrared spectroscopic measurements of the antihydrogen molecular ion Hˉ2\bar{H}_{2}^{-} (pˉpˉe+\bar{p}\bar{p}e^{+}) 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 Hˉ2\bar{H}_{2}^{-} 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 Hˉ2\bar{H}_{2}^{-} ion and initializing its quantum state.

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@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

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