An experimental limit on the charge of antihydrogen

Amole, C.; Ashkezari, M. D.; Baquero-Ruiz, M.; Bertsche, W.; Butler, E.; Capra, A.; Cesar, C. L.; Charlton, M.; Eriksson, S.; Fajans, J.; Friesen, T.; Fujiwara, M. C.; Gill, D. R.; Gutierrez, A.; Hangst, J. S.; Hardy, W. N.; Hayden, M. E.; Isaac, C. A.; Jonsell, S.; Kurchaninov, L.; Little, A.; Madsen, N.; K., J. T.; Menary, S.; Napoli, S. C.; Nolan, P.; Olchanski, K.; Olin, A.; Povilus, A.; Pusa, P.; Rasmussen, C.Ø.; Robicheaux, F.; Sarid, E.; Silveira, D. M.; So, C.; Tharp, T. D.; Thompson, R. I.; van, D. P.; Vendeiro, Z.; Wurtele, J. S.; Zhmoginov, A. I.; Charman, A. E.; Charlton, Michael; der, Dirk van; Madsen, Niels; Isaac, Aled; Eriksson, Stefan

doi:10.1038/ncomms4955

Journal article 2236 views 233 downloads

An experimental limit on the charge of antihydrogen

C. Amole, M. D. Ashkezari, M. Baquero-Ruiz, W. Bertsche, E. Butler, A. Capra, C. L. Cesar, M. Charlton, S. Eriksson, J. Fajans, T. Friesen, M. C. Fujiwara, D. R. Gill, A. Gutierrez, J. S. Hangst, W. N. Hardy, M. E. Hayden, C. A. Isaac, S. Jonsell, L. Kurchaninov, A. Little, N. Madsen, J. T. K. McKenna, S. Menary, S. C. Napoli, P. Nolan, K. Olchanski, A. Olin, A. Povilus, P. Pusa, C.Ø. Rasmussen, F. Robicheaux, E. Sarid, D. M. Silveira, C. So, T. D. Tharp, R. I. Thompson, D. P. van der Werf, Z. Vendeiro, J. S. Wurtele, A. I. Zhmoginov, A. E. Charman, Michael Charlton, Dirk van der Werf, Niels Madsen

, Aled Isaac

, Stefan Eriksson

Nature Communications, Volume: 5, Start page: 3955

Swansea University Authors: Michael Charlton, Dirk van der Werf, Niels Madsen , Aled Isaac , Stefan Eriksson

PDF | Version of Record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Download (779.61KB)

Check full text

DOI (Published version): 10.1038/ncomms4955

Abstract

The properties of antihydrogen are expected to be identical to those of hydrogen, and any differences would constitute a profound challenge to the fundamental theories of physics. The most commonly discussed antiatom-based tests of these theories are searches for antihydrogen-hydrogen spectral diffe...

Full description

Published in:	Nature Communications
ISSN:	2041-1723
Published:	2014
Online Access:	Check full text
URI:	https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa18032

Abstract:	The properties of antihydrogen are expected to be identical to those of hydrogen, and any differences would constitute a profound challenge to the fundamental theories of physics. The most commonly discussed antiatom-based tests of these theories are searches for antihydrogen-hydrogen spectral differences (tests of CPT (charge-parity-time) invariance) or gravitational differences (tests of the weak equivalence principle). Here we, the ALPHA Collaboration, report a different and somewhat unusual test of CPT and of quantum anomaly cancellation. A retrospective analysis of the influence of electric fields on antihydrogen atoms released from the ALPHA trap finds a mean axial deflection of 4.1±3.4 mm for an average axial electric field of 0.51 V mm−1. Combined with extensive numerical modelling, this measurement leads to a bound on the charge Qe of antihydrogen of Q=(−1.3±1.1±0.4) × 10^−8. Here, e is the unit charge, and the errors are from statistics and systematic effects.
Keywords:	Antihydrogen, ALPHA
College:	Faculty of Science and Engineering
Start Page:	3955

An experimental limit on the charge of antihydrogen

Similar Items