Nature Communications (Oct 2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production
- C. J. Baker,
- W. Bertsche,
- A. Capra,
- C. L. Cesar,
- M. Charlton,
- A. Cridland Mathad,
- S. Eriksson,
- A. Evans,
- N. Evetts,
- S. Fabbri,
- J. Fajans,
- T. Friesen,
- M. C. Fujiwara,
- P. Grandemange,
- P. Granum,
- J. S. Hangst,
- M. E. Hayden,
- D. Hodgkinson,
- C. A. Isaac,
- M. A. Johnson,
- J. M. Jones,
- S. A. Jones,
- S. Jonsell,
- L. Kurchaninov,
- N. Madsen,
- D. Maxwell,
- J. T. K. McKenna,
- S. Menary,
- T. Momose,
- P. Mullan,
- K. Olchanski,
- A. Olin,
- J. Peszka,
- A. Powell,
- P. Pusa,
- C. Ø. Rasmussen,
- F. Robicheaux,
- R. L. Sacramento,
- M. Sameed,
- E. Sarid,
- D. M. Silveira,
- G. Stutter,
- C. So,
- T. D. Tharp,
- R. I. Thompson,
- D. P. van der Werf,
- J. S. Wurtele
Affiliations
- C. J. Baker
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- W. Bertsche
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
- A. Capra
- TRIUMF
- C. L. Cesar
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- M. Charlton
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- A. Cridland Mathad
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- S. Eriksson
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- A. Evans
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary
- N. Evetts
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
- S. Fabbri
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
- J. Fajans
- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
- T. Friesen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary
- M. C. Fujiwara
- TRIUMF
- P. Grandemange
- TRIUMF
- P. Granum
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
- J. S. Hangst
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
- M. E. Hayden
- Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
- D. Hodgkinson
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
- C. A. Isaac
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- M. A. Johnson
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
- J. M. Jones
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- S. A. Jones
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
- S. Jonsell
- Department of Physics, Stockholm University
- L. Kurchaninov
- TRIUMF
- N. Madsen
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- D. Maxwell
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- J. T. K. McKenna
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
- S. Menary
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University
- T. Momose
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia
- P. Mullan
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- K. Olchanski
- TRIUMF
- A. Olin
- TRIUMF
- J. Peszka
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- A. Powell
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary
- P. Pusa
- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool
- C. Ø. Rasmussen
- Experimental Physics Department, CERN
- F. Robicheaux
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
- R. L. Sacramento
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- M. Sameed
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
- E. Sarid
- Soreq NRC
- D. M. Silveira
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- G. Stutter
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
- C. So
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary
- T. D. Tharp
- Physics Department, Marquette University
- R. I. Thompson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary
- D. P. van der Werf
- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University
- J. S. Wurtele
- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26086-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Positrons are key to the production of cold antihydrogen. Here the authors report the sympathetic cooling of positrons by interacting them with laser-cooled Be+ ions resulting in a three-fold reduction of the temperature of positrons for antihydrogen synthesis.
