Discriminating between antihydrogen and mirror-trapped antiprotons in a minimum-B trap

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

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

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^j TRIUMF   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^l STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION SIGNALS; ANTI-ATOMS; ANTIHYDROGEN; ANTIHYDROGEN ATOMS; ANTIPROTON ANNIHILATION; APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; MAGNET COILS; MAGNETIC GEOMETRY; TIME HISTORY;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAGNETS; MIRRORS; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

PROTONS;

EID: 84862279457     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/1/015010     Document Type: Article

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