Antiproton Research: Precision Mass Measurement and ThermalSource Development (Physics)

捕获反质子的工作将继续进行。利用欧洲核子研究中心的李尔设备，反质子被减速和冷却，然后被困在彭宁陷阱中。利用囚禁时间长和在陷阱中几乎不受微扰的特点，精确测量质子和反质子质量的比例，提供CPT不变性的最高精度测试之一。我们将开发出一种强反质子冷光源。这表明，通过允许正电子和反质子的冷俘获等离子体重新组合，有可能制造出可用的反氢。

Work will be continued on the trapping of antiprotons. Using the LEAR facility of CERN, antiprotons are decelerated and cooled, then trapped in a Penning trap. Long confinement time and near freedom from perturbations in the trap will be exploited to make precision measurements of the ratio of the proton and antiproton masses, providing one of the highest precision tests of CPT invariance. An intense source of cold antiprotons will be developed. It is suggested that it may be possible to make usable amounts of antihydrogen by allowing cold trapped plasmas of positrons and antiprotons to recombine.