3rd International Workshop on Antimatter and Gravity (WAG 2015)

Session

Session A

5 Aug 2015, 11:30

UCL

18. Advances in antiproton and positron trapping in the AEGIS experiment

Ruggero Caravita (CERN, Universita degli Studi di Genova)

05/08/2015, 11:30

Invited Talk

The direct measurement of Earth's gravitational acceleration on a purely antimatter system has been a dream of experimental particle physics for more than twenty years, since the first antiproton cooling attempts at CERN's Low Energy Antiproton Ring. The efficient production of antihydrogen atoms in traps at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator in 2002, opened a possibility to perform such...

11. The ALPHA experiment

Niels Madsen (Swansea University (GB))

05/08/2015, 12:00

Invited Talk

The ALPHA experiment aims to perform precison studies of antihydrogen and comparisons with hydrogen as a test of fundamental symmetries. Since 2010 ALPHA routinely traps antihydrogen and has demonstrated the first measurement of the internal structure of an antihydrogen atom by using microwaves to induce a resonant spin flip in the trapped antiatoms. ALPHA has also ventured to estimate its...