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

反质子的俘获工作将继续进行。利用欧洲核子研究中心的LEAR设备，反质子被减速和冷却，然后被困在潘宁阱中。长约束时间和阱中几乎不受扰动的自由将被用来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。冷反质子的强烈来源将被开发出来。有人建议，通过允许正电子和反质子的冷捕获等离子体重新组合，可能会产生可用数量的反氢。

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.