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De Araujo Azevedo, L. O.; De Oliveira, A. N.; Armstrong, S.; Cesar, C. L.
3rd Early Career Conference in Trapped Ions2024
3rd Early Career Conference in Trapped Ions2024
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[en] The reason why there is no primordial antimatter in the Universe remains a mystery. Measurements with antimatter [1][2] show full compatibility with its matter counterparts at high precision and that the antimatter feels Earth's gravitational attraction similarly to matter [3] at low precision. Antihydrogen (Hbar) is produced by trapping antiprotons and positrons in neighboring wells in a Penning-Malmberg trap and slowing mixing then. An Ioffe-Pritchard octupole magnetic trap superposed to the Penning trap allows the trapping of the produced neutral Hbars with energy below 500 mK [4]. Since trapped antiprotons and positrons are needed to create Hbars, a bias magnetic field of ~1 T is used in the trap region. This high magnetic field adds some systematic uncertainties in comparing the two-photon 1s-2s transition in H and Hbar since accurate measurements with H [5] are performed in a very low magnetic field environment. The precision of the comparison can be improved by trapping hydrogen in the same Hbar trap [6][7][8] and repeating the exact measurements with both counterparts, avoiding many systematic uncertainties such as this magnetic field effect, AC Stark shift from the same laser and enhancement cavity operation [9]. However, the strong bias magnetic field still affects the transition's lineshape and center. It is possible to ramp down the bias magnetic field and perform the 1s-2s spectroscopy with Hbar's since we can always detect the annihilation of the ionized atoms efficiently. Nevertheless, repeating the exact measurement in a near-zero bias with H is not straightforward since we can not detect the annihilation. If we keep the bias magnetic field, it is possible to recapture a fraction of the ionized H during the spectroscopy [10] by using a weak Penning trap potential, but for a near-zero magnetic field, recapturing the protons can not be accomplished. Here, we suggest using a hybrid Penning-Linear-Paul trap, using a segmented electrode in the Penning-Malmberg trap to radially confine the ions to perform high precision 1s-2s spectroscopy in H in a near-zero field trap. We will discuss the stability of the recaptured particles in a Linear-Paul trap with a weak magnetic field along the axis, the effect of the electric field on the lifetime of the H/Hbar, lineshape of the transition, the effect of a superposed octupole field to the RF trap, patch potentials, and possible magnetic fields measurements at low fields. [1] - Borchert et al, Nature 601, 53-57 (2022). [2] - Ahmadi, M. et al., Nature557, 71-75 (2018) [3] - Anderson, E.K. et al., Nature 621, 716-722 (2023) [4] - Andresen, G. B. et al, Nature 468, 673-676 (2010) [5] - Parthey, C. G. et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.107, 203001 (2011) [6] - Azevedo, L.O.A. et al, Commun Phys 6, 112 (2023) [7] - S A Jones, New J. Phys. 24 023016 (2022) [8] - W. A. Bertsche et al 2022 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2244 012080 [9] - ALPHA Collaboration, Nature Physics, Accepted - To be published [10] - Cesar, C. L., J. Phys. B49, 074001 (2016)
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vp; 2024; vp; ECCTI 2024: 3. Early Career Conference in Trapped Ions; Innsbruck (Austria); 7-12 Jul 2024; Available in electronic form from: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1346005/contributions/5899590/; Available in electronic form from: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1346005/timetable
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