Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Sixfold improved single particle measurement of the magnetic moment of the antiproton

  • H. Nagahama,
  • C. Smorra,
  • S. Sellner,
  • J. Harrington,
  • T. Higuchi,
  • M. J. Borchert,
  • T. Tanaka,
  • M. Besirli,
  • A. Mooser,
  • G. Schneider,
  • K. Blaum,
  • Y. Matsuda,
  • C. Ospelkaus,
  • W. Quint,
  • J. Walz,
  • Y. Yamazaki,
  • S. Ulmer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14084
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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High-precision measurements could disclose fundamental dissimilarities between matter and antimatter, which are found imbalanced in the Universe. Here, the authors measure the magnetic moment of the antiproton with six-fold higher accuracy than before, finding it consistent with that of the proton.