Trapped Antihydrogen in Its Ground State
Atomic Physics
2023-11-14 v2
Abstract
Antihydrogen atoms are confined in an Ioffe trap for 15 to 1000 seconds -- long enough to ensure that they reach their ground state. Though reproducibility challenges remain in making large numbers of cold antiprotons and positrons interact, 5 +/- 1 simultaneously-confined ground state atoms are produced and observed on average, substantially more than previously reported. Increases in the number of simultaneously trapped antithydrogen atoms are critical if laser-cooling of trapped antihydrogen is to be demonstrated, and spectroscopic studies at interesting levels of precision are to be carried out.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1201.2717,
title = {Trapped Antihydrogen in Its Ground State},
author = {G. Gabrielse and R. Kalra and W. S. Kolthammer and R. McConnell and P. Richerme and D. Grzonka and W. Oelert and T. Sefzick and M. Zielinski and D. W. Fitzakerley and M. C. George and E. A. Hessels and C. H. Storry and M. Weel and A. Müllers and J. Walz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2717},
year = {2023}
}