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International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP)

Progress of Antihydrogen Beam Production Using a Double Cusp Trap

Y. Nagata, N. Kuroda, Pierre Dupré, B. Radics, M. Tajima, A. A. Capon, M. Diermaier, C. Kaga, B. Kolbinger, Marco Leali, Evandro Lodi Rizzini, C. Malbrunot, V. Mascagna, O. Massiczek, Takuya Matsudate, C. Sauerzopf, Martin C. Simon, Ken Suzuki, Johann Zmeskal, H. Breuker, H. Higaki, Yasuyuki Kanai, Y. Matsuda, S. Ulmer, L. Venturelli, E. Widmann, Y. Yamazaki

Published Nov 23, 2017• 3 citations
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Abstract

We report the progress of the H beam production experiment and recent developments of the double cusp trap to improve of the beam intensity of the H atomic beams, the ASACUSA Micromegas tracker to monitoring the antihydrogen synthesis and the antihydrogen beam detector.
DOI
10.7566/jpscp.18.011007

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