10-04-2017, 07:56 PM
Setting a Trap for Antimatter
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Setting a Trap for Antimatter
Matter and Antimatter? Particle and Atoms of Matter and Antimatter
Annihilation Challenges
Traps: Containers Without Walls
Making Antimatter Atoms?
Why Should We Do This?
Universe Made of Antimatter
Essentially the same as a universe made of matter
We only know two ways for inhabitants to know whether they
live in a universe made of matter or antimatter
(Need a large accelerator complex and
sophisticated techniques)
Can study the particle properties with
extremely high precision
Antiproton and proton have the same charge-to-mass ratio
to better than 1 part in 1010 = 10000000000
Measure the electron magnetic moment
to better than 1 part in 1012 = 1000000000000
Gives a new value for the fine structure constant
that is much more accurate
Cold Antihydrogen Aspirations Announced Long Ago
For me, the most attractive way .. would be to capture the
antihydrogen in a neutral particle trap .. The objective would be
to then study the properties of a small number of [antihydrogen]
atoms confined in the neutral trap for a long time.