Laser-cooled Be+ for improved antihydrogen trapping and magnetometry.

激光冷却铍用于改进反氢捕获和磁力测量。

• 批准号: 2224433
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2224433
• 关键词: Laser; cooled; Be+; improved; antihydrogen

We will laser-cool Be+ ions in a Penning trap adapted for antihydrogen formation and trapping. The laser-cooled Be+ will be used for two separate purposes to assist in the studies of antihydrogen. The first part of the project will focus on using the cold Be+ to sympathetically cool positrons, and thereby produce colder antihydrogen. This will allow increased antihydrogen production and the production of colder antihydrogen. This should also allow for the use of more positrons than were hitherto possible. With this assistance we expect to learn more about the formation process and ultimately increase the trapping rates of antihydrogen into a magnetic trap by at least an order of magnitude, something that will greatly accelerate precision measurements allowing for increased precision. Additionally cold Be+ will be used for in-situe magnetometry of the magnetic fields in our antihydrogen traps. Particularly for antimatter gravity measurements this is of great importance, but as the precision on the spectroscopy measurements increase knowledge of the magnetic field will ultimately limit the precision. A particular problem currently not addressed is measuring low magnetic fields, where the currently applied technique fails.

我们将在一个适合反氢形成和捕获的潘宁阱中激光冷却Be+离子。激光冷却的Be+将用于两个不同的目的，以协助反氢的研究。该项目的第一部分将集中在使用冷Be+来同情地冷却正电子，从而产生更冷的反氢。这将允许增加反氢的生产和生产更冷的反氢。这也应该允许使用比迄今为止更多的正电子。在这种帮助下，我们希望更多地了解形成过程，并最终将反氢进入磁阱的捕获率提高至少一个数量级，这将大大加快精确测量的速度，从而提高精度。此外，冷Be+将用于反氢阱中磁场的原位磁力测量。特别是对于反物质重力测量，这是非常重要的，但随着光谱测量精度的提高，磁场的知识最终会限制精度。目前没有解决的一个具体问题是测量低磁场，其中目前应用的技术失败。