Speaker
Mohamed Assad Abdel-Raouf
(United Arab Emirates Un iversity, College of Science)
Description
The successful operation of the LHC facilities at CERN and the production of unlimited number of particles and antiparticles at high energies raise the challenging question about the possible cooling of these particles and the enhancement of matter-antimatter physics. Particularly, of great interest is the realization of research channels similar to the "ALPHA" and "ATRAP' experiments. In these cases the trapping of large number of cold antiprotons led, respectively, to the formation and trapping of antihydrogens as well as the production of protoniums. In other words it is anticipated that investigations could be extended to the formation of different quasi atoms containing leptons and hadrons. The main goal of the present work is to explore the possible formations of heterocompounds, i.e. exotic molecular structures composed of particles and antiparticles, e.g. e- p+ p- e+, e- π+ π- e+, e- µ+ µ- e+ and µ- π+ π- µ+. Special attention is devoted to the first member of these compounds, namely the heterohydrogens and their isotopes (Antihydrogen-Hydrogen, Antihydrogen-Deuterium and Antihydrogen-Tritium). However, it is indicated that the other compounds are bound and could be formed in nature.
Summary
Possible coexistence of matter and antimatter at low energies is explored as one of the fruitful implementations of the LHC project.
Author
Mohamed Assad Abdel-Raouf
(United Arab Emirates Un iversity, College of Science)
