English

High Efficiency Positron Accumulation for High-Precision Measurements

Instrumentation and Detectors 2023-11-14 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

Positrons are accumulated within a Penning trap designed to make more precise measurements of the positron and electron magnetic moments. The retractable radioactive source used is weak enough to require no license for handling radioactive material and the radiation dosage one meter from the source gives an exposure several times smaller than the average radiation dose on the earth's surface. The 100 mK trap is mechanically aligned with the 4.2 K superconducting solenoid that produces a 6 tesla magnetic trapping field with a direct mechanical coupling.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1501.00096,
  title  = {High Efficiency Positron Accumulation for High-Precision Measurements},
  author = {S. Fogwell Hoogerheide and J. C. Dorr and E. Novitski and G. Gabrielse},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.00096},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 9 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T07:47:57.520Z