CERN Accelerating science

Article
Title ATRAP Progress Towards Trapped Antihydrogen
Author(s) Grzonka, D ; Comeau, D ; Gabrielse, G ; Goldenbaum, F ; Hänsch, T W ; Hessels, E A ; Larochelle, P ; Le Sage, D ; Levitt, B ; Oelert, W ; Pittner, H ; Sefzick, T ; Speck, A ; Storry, C H ; Walz, J ; Zhang, Z
Publication 2005
In: AIP Conf. Proc. 796 (2005) 296-300
In: International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics, Bonn, Germany, 16 - 22 May 2005, pp.296-300
DOI 10.1063/1.2130183
Subject category Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment ATRAP
Abstract The ATRAP experiment at the CERN antiproton decelerator AD aims for a test of the CPT invariance by a high precision comparison of the 1s‐2s transition in the hydrogen and the antihydrogen atom. Antihydrogen production is routinely operated at ATRAP and detailed studies have been performed in order to optimize the production efficiency of useful antihydrogen. For high precision measurements of atomic transitions cold antihydrogen in the ground state is required which must be trapped due to the low number of available antihydrogen atoms compared to the cold hydrogen beam used for hydrogen spectroscopy. To ensure a reasonable antihydrogen trapping efficiency a magnetic trap has to be superposed the nested Penning trap. First trapping tests of charged particles within a combined magnetic/Penning trap have started at ATRAP.

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