Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Antihydrogen accumulation for fundamental symmetry tests

  • M. Ahmadi,
  • B. X. R. Alves,
  • C. J. Baker,
  • W. Bertsche,
  • E. Butler,
  • A. Capra,
  • C. Carruth,
  • C. L. Cesar,
  • M. Charlton,
  • S. Cohen,
  • R. Collister,
  • S. Eriksson,
  • A. Evans,
  • N. Evetts,
  • J. Fajans,
  • T. Friesen,
  • M. C. Fujiwara,
  • D. R. Gill,
  • A. Gutierrez,
  • J. S. Hangst,
  • W. N. Hardy,
  • M. E. Hayden,
  • C. A. Isaac,
  • A. Ishida,
  • M. A. Johnson,
  • S. A. Jones,
  • S. Jonsell,
  • L. Kurchaninov,
  • N. Madsen,
  • M. Mathers,
  • D. Maxwell,
  • J. T. K. McKenna,
  • S. Menary,
  • J. M. Michan,
  • T. Momose,
  • J. J. Munich,
  • P. Nolan,
  • K. Olchanski,
  • A. Olin,
  • P. Pusa,
  • C. Ø. Rasmussen,
  • F. Robicheaux,
  • R. L. Sacramento,
  • M. Sameed,
  • E. Sarid,
  • D. M. Silveira,
  • S. Stracka,
  • G. Stutter,
  • C. So,
  • T. D. Tharp,
  • J. E. Thompson,
  • R. I. Thompson,
  • D. P. van der Werf,
  • J. S. Wurtele

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00760-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Antihydrogen studies are important in testing the fundamental principles of physics but producing antihydrogen in large amounts is challenging. Here the authors demonstrate an efficient and high-precision method for trapping and stacking antihydrogen by using controlled plasma.