ASACUSA trap group (MUSASHI)

ASACUSA-MUSASHI group focuses on atomic collision process in low energy region. Also we carry out the program of spectroscopy of cold antihydrogen atoms. These researches are going on at CERN AD.

News

May, 2008
Press release (in Japanese)
Jan, 2008
ASACUSA moves towards new antihydrogen experiments(CERN courier)
Workshop on Cold Antimatter Plasmas and Application to Fundamental Physics (Pbar08)
February 20-22,2008, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
Nov, 2007
First antiproton c.a. 3 millions trapped in the Cusp trap! Also read "Even Better Mousetraps" in CERN Bulletin Issue 50, 2007.

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Oct, 2007
New record! ASACUSA MUSASHI trap confined and cooled ca. 10,800,000 (10E7) antiprotons.

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Research Topics of ASACUSA-MUSASHI group

Making Ultra-Slow Antiproton beams

Our developing antiproton beam source, MUSASHI, can provide ultra-slow antiproton beams. The beams decelerated by the RFQD are trapped and cooled in an antiproton trap of MUSASHI, and extracted at energies of 10-1000 eV.

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ASACUSA MUSASHI antiproton trap

Atomic collisions --- Antiprotonic atom formation

The ultra-slow antiproton beam which is extracted stably from the MUSASHI apparatus at energies of the region of atomic physics, has opened up the possibility to study ionization and atomic capture processes between a very slow monoenergetic antiproton and an atom under the single-collision condition for the first time.

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Supersonic gas jet chamber

Antihydrogen atom fromation and spectroscopy --- Cusp trap

We proposed a cusp trap in which antihydrogen Rydberg states may not only be synthesized at low temperatures but also trapped at for a time long enough to allow most of them to cascade down to the ground state for subsequent use in a variety of experiments. The cusp trap consists of a magnetic quadrupole (cusp) field formed by a pair of superconducting solenoids together with an electrostatic octupole.

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CUSP trap for antihydrogen atoms

group members

Publications

Links

Brief description about antimatter for general public by CERN : http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/index.html

日本語での簡単な解説

ASACUSA Collaboration : International collaboration for physics with slow antiprotons

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