Limit on the electric charge of antihydrogen

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• 作者：A. Capra ; C. Amole ; M. D. Ashkezari ; M. Baquero-Ruiz ; W. Bertsche…
• 关键词：Antihydrogen ; Atom trapping ; CPT ; Fundamental symmetries ; Silicon detector ; Position sensitive detector ; Electric charge ; Electric neutrality ; Quantum anomaly
• 刊名：Hyperfine Interactions
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：November 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：238
• 期：1
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics; Condensed Matter Physics; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1572-9540
• 卷排序：238

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The ALPHA collaboration has successfully demonstrated the production and the confinement of cold antihydrogen, H̅. An analysis of trapping data allowed a stringent limit to be placed on the electric charge of the simplest antiatom. Charge neutrality of matter is known to a very high precision, hence a neutrality limit of H̅ provides a test of CPT invariance. The experimental technique is based on the measurement of the deflection of putatively charged H̅ in an electric field. The tendency for trapped H̅ atoms to be displaced by electrostatic fields is measured and compared to the results of a detailed simulation of H̅ dynamics in the trap. An extensive survey of the systematic errors was performed, and this work focuses on those due to the silicon vertex detector, which is the device used to determine the H̅ annihilation position. The limit obtained on the charge of the H̅ atom is Q = (−1.3 ± 1.8 ± 0.4) × 10−8, representing the first precision measurement with H̅ [1].