4–12 Jul 2018
Europe/Athens timezone
Group photo: indico.cern.ch/event/663474/images/19808-ICNFP_2018_Group_Photo.JPG

The AEgIS experiment: current status and outlook

5 Jul 2018, 11:00
30m
Room 3

Room 3

Speaker

Angela Gligorova (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

Description

The AEgIS experiment at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator aims to perform a direct test of the Weak Equivalence Principle for antimatter by measuring the local gravitational acceleration for antihydrogen. The first step towards this goal is the formation of a pulsed, cold antihydrogen beam, which will be created by a charge exchange reaction between laser excited (Rydberg) positronium and cold antiprotons. The antihydrogen beam deflection due to Earth’s gravity will then be measured using a moiré deflectometer coupled to a position sensitive detector.
In this talk I will give a general overview of the experiment with focus on the current status towards antihydrogen formation. I will present recent advancements on manipulation techniques for non-neutral plasmas in the AEgIS apparatus and the new positron injection scheme. I will also give an outlook for the measurements for the upcoming antiproton beam time.

Primary author

Angela Gligorova (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

Presentation materials