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In-beam measurement of the hydrogen hyperfine splitting and prospects for antihydrogen spectroscopy.

ABSTRACT: Antihydrogen, the lightest atom consisting purely of antimatter, is an ideal laboratory to study the CPT symmetry by comparison with hydrogen. With respect to absolute precision, transitions within the ground-state hyperfine structure (GS-HFS) are most appealing by virtue of their small energy separation. ASACUSA proposed employing a beam of cold antihydrogen atoms in a Rabi-type experiment, to determine the GS-HFS in a field-free region. Here we present a measurement of the zero-field hydrogen GS-HFS using the spectroscopy apparatus of ASACUSA's antihydrogen experiment. The measured value of ?_HF=1,420,405,748.4(3.4) (1.6)?Hz with a relative precision of 2.7 × 10^-9 constitutes the most precise determination of this quantity in a beam and verifies the developed spectroscopy methods for the antihydrogen HFS experiment to the p.p.b. level. Together with the recently presented observation of antihydrogen atoms 2.7?m downstream of the production region, the prerequisites for a measurement with antihydrogen are now available within the ASACUSA collaboration.

SUBMITTER: Diermaier M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5472788 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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In-beam measurement of the hydrogen hyperfine splitting and prospects for antihydrogen spectroscopy.

Diermaier M M Jepsen C B CB Kolbinger B B Malbrunot C C Massiczek O O Sauerzopf C C Simon M C MC Zmeskal J J Widmann E E

Nature communications 20170612

Antihydrogen, the lightest atom consisting purely of antimatter, is an ideal laboratory to study the CPT symmetry by comparison with hydrogen. With respect to absolute precision, transitions within the ground-state hyperfine structure (GS-HFS) are most appealing by virtue of their small energy separation. ASACUSA proposed employing a beam of cold antihydrogen atoms in a Rabi-type experiment, to determine the GS-HFS in a field-free region. Here we present a measurement of the zero-field hydrogen ...[more]

PMID: 28604657

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In-beam measurement of the hydrogen hyperfine splitting and prospects for antihydrogen spectroscopy.

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