Antimatter interferometry for gravity measurements

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Hamilton, Paul ^a   Zhmoginov, Andrey ^a   Robicheaux, Francis ^b   Fajans, Joel ^a   Wurtele, Jonathan S ^a   Müller, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS;

ANTIHYDROGEN; ATOM INTERFEROMETER; EINSTEIN EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE; FREE FALL; GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT;

ATOM LASERS;

EID: 84897395490     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.121102     Document Type: Article

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