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Latacz BM, Arndt BP, Bauer BB, Devlin JA, Erlewein SR, Fleck M, Jäger JI, Schiffelholz M, Umbrazunas G, Wursten EJ, Abbass F, Micke P, Popper D, Wiesinger M, Will C, Yildiz H, Blaum K, Matsuda Y, Mooser A, Ospelkaus C, Quint W, Soter A, Walz J, Yamazaki Y, Smorra C, Ulmer S. BASE-high-precision comparisons of the fundamental properties of protons and antiprotons. Eur Phys J D At Mol Opt Phys 2023; 77:94. [PMID: 37288385 PMCID: PMC10241734 DOI: 10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00672-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Abstract The BASE collaboration at the antiproton decelerator/ELENA facility of CERN compares the fundamental properties of protons and antiprotons with ultra-high precision. Using advanced Penning trap systems, we have measured the proton and antiproton magnetic moments with fractional uncertainties of 300 parts in a trillion (p.p.t.) and 1.5 parts in a billion (p.p.b.), respectively. The combined measurements improve the resolution of the previous best test in that sector by more than a factor of 3000. Very recently, we have compared the antiproton/proton charge-to-mass ratios with a fractional precision of 16 p.p.t., which improved the previous best measurement by a factor of 4.3. These results allowed us also to perform a differential matter/antimatter clock comparison test to limits better than 3 %. Our measurements enable us to set limits on 22 coefficients of CPT- and Lorentz-violating standard model extensions (SME) and to search for potentially asymmetric interactions between antimatter and dark matter. In this article, we review some of the recent achievements and outline recent progress towards a planned improved measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment with an at least tenfold improved fractional accuracy. Graphic Abstract
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- B. M. Latacz
- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- CERN, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1217 Meyrin, Switzerland
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- GSI-Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- CERN, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1217 Meyrin, Switzerland
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-0041 Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- CERN, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1217 Meyrin, Switzerland
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- CERN, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1217 Meyrin, Switzerland
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-0041 Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- GSI-Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudingerweg 18, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Heinrich-Heine Universität, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Pavlov VA, Shushenachev YV, Zlotin SG. Possible Physical Basis of Mirror Symmetry Effect in Racemic Mixtures of Enantiomers: From Wallach’s Rule, Nonlinear Effects, B–Z DNA Transition, and Similar Phenomena to Mirror Symmetry Effects of Chiral Objects. Symmetry (Basel) 2020; 12:889. [DOI: 10.3390/sym12060889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Effects associated with mirror symmetry may be underlying for a number of phenomena in chemistry and physics. Increase in the density and melting point of the 50%L/50%D collection of enantiomers of a different sign (Wallach’s rule) is probably based on a physical effect of the mirror image. The catalytic activity of metal complexes with racemic ligands differs from the corresponding complexes with enantiomers as well (nonlinear effect). A similar difference in the physical properties of enantiomers and racemate underlies L/D inversion points of linear helical macromolecules, helical nanocrystals of magnetite and boron nitride etc., B–Z DNA transition and phenomenon of mirror neurons may have a similar nature. Here we propose an explanation of the Wallach effect along with some similar chemical, physical, and biological phenomena related to mirror image.
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YAMAZAKI Y. Cold and stable antimatter for fundamental physics. Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci 2020; 96:471-501. [PMID: 33390386 PMCID: PMC7859084 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.96.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The field of cold antimatter physics has rapidly developed in the last 20 years, overlapping with the period of the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. The central subjects are CPT symmetry tests and Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) tests. Various groundbreaking techniques have been developed and are still in progress such as to cool antiprotons and positrons down to extremely low temperature, to manipulate antihydrogen atoms, to construct extremely high-precision Penning traps, etc. The precisions of the antiproton and proton magnetic moments have improved by six orders of magnitude, and also laser spectroscopy of antihydrogen has been realized and reached a relative precision of 2 × 10-12 during the AD time. Antiprotonic helium laser spectroscopy, which started during the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) time, has reached a relative precision of 8 × 10-10. Three collaborations joined the WEP tests inventing various unique approaches. An additional new post-decelerator, Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring (ELENA), has been constructed and will be ready in 2021, which will provide 10-100 times more cold antiprotons to each experiment. A new era of the cold antimatter physics will emerge soon including the transport of antiprotons to other facilities.
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Smorra C, Stadnik YV, Blessing PE, Bohman M, Borchert MJ, Devlin JA, Erlewein S, Harrington JA, Higuchi T, Mooser A, Schneider G, Wiesinger M, Wursten E, Blaum K, Matsuda Y, Ospelkaus C, Quint W, Walz J, Yamazaki Y, Budker D, Ulmer S. Direct limits on the interaction of antiprotons with axion-like dark matter. Nature 2019; 575:310-314. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1727-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Ficek F, Fadeev P, Flambaum VV, Jackson Kimball DF, Kozlov MG, Stadnik YV, Budker D. Constraints on Exotic Spin-Dependent Interactions Between Matter and Antimatter from Antiprotonic Helium Spectroscopy. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:183002. [PMID: 29775329 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.183002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Heretofore undiscovered spin-0 or spin-1 bosons can mediate exotic spin-dependent interactions between standard model particles. Here, we carry out the first search for semileptonic spin-dependent interactions between matter and antimatter. We compare theoretical calculations and spectroscopic measurements of the hyperfine structure of antiprotonic helium to constrain exotic spin- and velocity-dependent interactions between electrons and antiprotons.
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- Filip Ficek
- Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Łojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
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- Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Fakultät für Physik, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, 80333 München, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
- School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Department of Physics, California State University-East Bay, Hayward, California 94542-3084, USA
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- Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute of NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Gatchina 188300, Russia
- St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI, Prof. Popov Str. 5, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Schneider G, Mooser A, Bohman M, Schön N, Harrington J, Higuchi T, Nagahama H, Sellner S, Smorra C, Blaum K, Matsuda Y, Quint W, Walz J, Ulmer S. Double-trap measurement of the proton magnetic moment at 0.3 parts per billion precision. Science 2018; 358:1081-1084. [PMID: 29170238 DOI: 10.1126/science.aan0207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Precise knowledge of the fundamental properties of the proton is essential for our understanding of atomic structure as well as for precise tests of fundamental symmetries. We report on a direct high-precision measurement of the magnetic moment μp of the proton in units of the nuclear magneton μN The result, μp = 2.79284734462 (±0.00000000082) μN, has a fractional precision of 0.3 parts per billion, improves the previous best measurement by a factor of 11, and is consistent with the currently accepted value. This was achieved with the use of an optimized double-Penning trap technique. Provided a similar measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment can be performed, this result will enable a test of the fundamental symmetry between matter and antimatter in the baryonic sector at the 10-10 level.
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- Georg Schneider
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany. .,RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.,Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, Germany.,Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Ulmer S, Mooser A, Nagahama H, Sellner S, Smorra C. Challenging the standard model by high-precision comparisons of the fundamental properties of protons and antiprotons. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2018; 376:rsta.2017.0275. [PMID: 29459414 PMCID: PMC5829177 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/01/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The BASE collaboration investigates the fundamental properties of protons and antiprotons, such as charge-to-mass ratios and magnetic moments, using advanced cryogenic Penning trap systems. In recent years, we performed the most precise measurement of the magnetic moments of both the proton and the antiproton, and conducted the most precise comparison of the proton-to-antiproton charge-to-mass ratio. In addition, we have set the most stringent constraint on directly measured antiproton lifetime, based on a unique reservoir trap technique. Our matter/antimatter comparison experiments provide stringent tests of the fundamental charge-parity-time invariance, which is one of the fundamental symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. This article reviews the recent achievements of BASE and gives an outlook to our physics programme in the ELENA era.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Antiproton physics in the ELENA era'.
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- S Ulmer
- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Vargas AJ. Prospects for testing Lorentz and CPT symmetry with antiprotons. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2018; 376:20170276. [PMID: 29459417 PMCID: PMC5829178 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/11/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A brief overview of the prospects of testing Lorentz and CPT symmetry with antimatter experiments is presented. The models discussed are applicable to atomic spectroscopy experiments, Penning-trap experiments and gravitational tests. Comments about the sensitivity of the most recent antimatter experiments to the models reviewed here are included.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Antiproton physics in the ELENA era'.
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- Arnaldo J Vargas
- Loyola University New Orleans, 6363 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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Yamashita T, Kino Y. Three-body resonance states just below the antiproton and hydrogen dissociation threshold. EPJ Web of Conferences 2018. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201818101034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We analyze two shallow resonance states below the antiproton hydrogen dissociation threshold with a non-adiabatic three-body calculation. Rearrangement correlation between initial channel and protonium formation channel is explicitly included in the total wavefunction. The lower resonance state is in good agreement with the resonance position and width calculated with the R-matrix theory. The higher resonance state which is newly found is closer to the threshold and much narrower than the former resonance. A polarization effect of the hydrogen atom is found to be indispensable to support the resonance state. The accuracy of the present calculation is evaluated by the extended virial theorem. The resonance states calculated in the present work gives shallower relative energy below the dissociation threshold than the Born-Oppenheimer calculation, suggesting that the electron motion which is ignored in latter calculation would give positive energy because the electron is unbound inside the distance.
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Smorra C, Sellner S, Borchert MJ, Harrington JA, Higuchi T, Nagahama H, Tanaka T, Mooser A, Schneider G, Bohman M, Blaum K, Matsuda Y, Ospelkaus C, Quint W, Walz J, Yamazaki Y, Ulmer S. A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment. Nature 2017; 550:371-374. [DOI: 10.1038/nature24048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Ahmadi M, Alves BXR, Baker CJ, Bertsche W, Butler E, Capra A, Carruth C, Cesar CL, Charlton M, Cohen S, Collister R, Eriksson S, Evans A, Evetts N, Fajans J, Friesen T, Fujiwara MC, Gill DR, Gutierrez A, Hangst JS, Hardy WN, Hayden ME, Isaac CA, Ishida A, Johnson MA, Jones SA, Jonsell S, Kurchaninov L, Madsen N, Mathers M, Maxwell D, McKenna JTK, Menary S, Michan JM, Momose T, Munich JJ, Nolan P, Olchanski K, Olin A, Pusa P, Rasmussen CØ, Robicheaux F, Sacramento RL, Sameed M, Sarid E, Silveira DM, Stracka S, Stutter G, So C, Tharp TD, Thompson JE, Thompson RI, van der Werf DP, Wurtele JS. Antihydrogen accumulation for fundamental symmetry tests. Nat Commun 2017; 8:681. [PMID: 28947794 PMCID: PMC5613003 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00760-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2017] [Accepted: 07/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Antihydrogen, a positron bound to an antiproton, is the simplest anti-atom. Its structure and properties are expected to mirror those of the hydrogen atom. Prospects for precision comparisons of the two, as tests of fundamental symmetries, are driving a vibrant programme of research. In this regard, a limiting factor in most experiments is the availability of large numbers of cold ground state antihydrogen atoms. Here, we describe how an improved synthesis process results in a maximum rate of 10.5 ± 0.6 atoms trapped and detected per cycle, corresponding to more than an order of magnitude improvement over previous work. Additionally, we demonstrate how detailed control of electron, positron and antiproton plasmas enables repeated formation and trapping of antihydrogen atoms, with the simultaneous retention of atoms produced in previous cycles. We report a record of 54 detected annihilation events from a single release of the trapped anti-atoms accumulated from five consecutive cycles. 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.
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- M Ahmadi
- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M12 9PL, UK.,Cockcroft Institute, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK
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- Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211, Geneve 23, Switzerland
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300, USA
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- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-972, Brazil
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
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- Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M12 9PL, UK.,Cockcroft Institute, Sci-Tech Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3.,École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Swiss Plasma Center (SPC), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1
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- Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3
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- TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 2A3.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8P 5C2
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- Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-972, Brazil
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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- Soreq NRC, Yavne, 81800, Israel
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- Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-972, Brazil
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- Universita di Pisa and Sezione INFN di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4
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- Physics Department, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI, 53201-1881, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4
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- Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.,IRFU, CEA/Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7300, USA
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Diermaier M, Jepsen CB, Kolbinger B, Malbrunot C, Massiczek O, Sauerzopf C, Simon MC, Zmeskal J, Widmann E. In-beam measurement of the hydrogen hyperfine splitting and prospects for antihydrogen spectroscopy. Nat Commun 2017; 8:15749. [PMID: 28604657 PMCID: PMC5472788 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Antihydrogen, the lightest atom consisting purely of antimatter, is an ideal laboratory to study the CPT symmetry by comparison with hydrogen. With respect to absolute precision, transitions within the ground-state hyperfine structure (GS-HFS) are most appealing by virtue of their small energy separation. ASACUSA proposed employing a beam of cold antihydrogen atoms in a Rabi-type experiment, to determine the GS-HFS in a field-free region. Here we present a measurement of the zero-field hydrogen GS-HFS using the spectroscopy apparatus of ASACUSA's antihydrogen experiment. The measured value of νHF=1,420,405,748.4(3.4) (1.6) Hz with a relative precision of 2.7 × 10-9 constitutes the most precise determination of this quantity in a beam and verifies the developed spectroscopy methods for the antihydrogen HFS experiment to the p.p.b. level. Together with the recently presented observation of antihydrogen atoms 2.7 m downstream of the production region, the prerequisites for a measurement with antihydrogen are now available within the ASACUSA collaboration.
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- M. Diermaier
- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
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- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Genève 23, CH-1211, Switzerland
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- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
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- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
- Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Genève 23, CH-1211, Switzerland
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- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
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- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
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- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
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- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
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- Stefan-Meyer-Institut für Subatomare Physik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, Wien 1090, Austria
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