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Authors :
F. Stinzing
D. Grzonka
M. Wolke
S. Brauksiepe
M. M. Macri
K. Kilian
G. Schepers
Gerhard Baur
R.S. Simon
J. Hauffe
M. Moosburger
K. Röhrich
R. Nellen
A. Pozzo
W. Oelert
K. Sachs
T. Sefzick
R. Geyer
M. LoVetere
A. Buzzo
W. Eyrich
R. Stratmann
S. Passaggio
Giovanni Boero
Source :
Hyperfine Interactions. 109:191-203
Publication Year :
1997
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1997.

Abstract

The observation of the production of antihydrogen atoms H0 = pe+, the simplest atomic bound state of antimatter, is presented. A method has been used by the PS210 collaboration at LEAR which assumes that the production of H0 is predominantly mediated by the e+e--pair creation via the two-photon mechanism in the antiproton-nucleus interaction. Neutral H0 atoms are indentified by a unique sequence of characteristics. In principle H0 is well suited for investigations of fundamental CPT violation studies under different forces, however, in our investigations we concentrate on the production of this antimatter object, since so far it had not been observed. The production of eleven antihydrogen atoms is reported including possibly 2 ± 1 background signals, the observed yield agrees with theoretical predictions.

Details

Volume :
109
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Hyperfine Interactions
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........05a173f15d5d84fdc440f6065f7a8b3c
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012609601849