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Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production
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W. Bertsche,
A. Capra,
C. L. Cesar,
Michael Charlton,
April Cridland ,
Stefan 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,
Aled Isaac ,
M. A. Johnson,
Jack Jones,
S. A. Jones,
S. Jonsell,
L. Kurchaninov,
Niels Madsen ,
Daniel Maxwell ,
J. T. K. McKenna,
S. Menary,
T. Momose,
Patrick 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,
Dirk van der Werf ,
J. S. Wurtele
Nature Communications, Volume: 12, Issue: 1
Swansea University Authors:
Christopher Baker , Michael Charlton, April Cridland , Stefan Eriksson , Aled Isaac , Jack Jones, Niels Madsen , Daniel Maxwell , Patrick Mullan, Dirk van der Werf
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DOI (Published version): 10.1038/s41467-021-26086-1
Abstract
The positron, the antiparticle of the electron, predicted by Dirac in 1931 and discovered by Anderson in 1933, plays a key role in many scientific and everyday endeavours. Notably, the positron is a constituent of antihydrogen, the only long-lived neutral antimatter bound state that can currently be...
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| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2021
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The positron, the antiparticle of the electron, predicted by Dirac in 1931 and discovered by Anderson in 1933, plays a key role in many scientific and everyday endeavours. Notably, the positron is a constituent of antihydrogen, the only long-lived neutral antimatter bound state that can currently be synthesized at low energy, presenting a prominent system for testing fundamental symmetries with high precision. Here, we report on the use of laser cooled Be+ ions to sympathetically cool a large and dense plasma of positrons to directly measured temperatures below 7 K in a Penning trap for antihydrogen synthesis. This will likely herald a significant increase in the amount of antihydrogen available for experimentation, thus facilitating further improvements in studies of fundamental symmetries. |
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This work was supported by: CNPq, FAPERJ, RENAFAE (Brazil); NSERC, NRC/TRIUMF, EHPDS/EHDRS, FQRNT (Canada); FNU (NICE Centre), Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark); ISF (Israel); STFC, EPSRC (UK); DOE, NSF (USA); and VR (Sweden). |
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