Trapped antihydrogen

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7324, 2010, Pages 673-676

  Andresen, G B ^a   Ashkezari, M D ^b   Baquero Ruiz, M ^c   Bertsche, W ^d   Bowe, P D ^a   Butler, E ^d   Cesar, C L ^e   Chapman, S ^c   Charlton, M ^d   Deller, A ^d   Eriksson, S ^d   Fajans, J ^c,f   Friesen, T ^g   Fujiwara, M C ^g,h   Gill, D R ^h   Gutierrez, A ⁱ   Hangst, J S ^a   Hardy, W N ⁱ   Hayden, M E ^b   Humphries, A J ^d   Hydomako, R ^g   Jenkins, M J ^d   Jonsell, S ^j   Jorgensen L V ^d   Kurchaninov, L ^h   Madsen, N ^d   Menary, S ^k   Nolan, P ^l   Olchanski, K ^h   Olin, A ^h   Povilus, A ^c   Pusa, P ^l   Robicheaux, F ^m   Sarid, E ⁿ   Nasr, S Seif El ⁱ   Silveira, D M ^o   So, C ^c   Storey, J W ^h,q   Thompson, R I ^g   Van Der Werf, D P ^d   Wurtele, J S ^c,f   Yamazaki, Y ^o,p   more..

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^h TRIUMF   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^j STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^m AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^o RIKEN   (Japan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYDROGEN; ELEMENT; HYDROGEN; PROTON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRON; EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROGEN; MAGNETIC METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECTROSCOPY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ARTICLE; ATOM; COSMIC RADIATION; DESTRUCTION; ELECTRON; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVITY; MAGNETISM; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 78649883248     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09610     Document Type: Article

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