2–7 Sept 2018
Europe/Rome timezone

The AEGIS experiment at CERN: Probing antimatter gravity

6 Sept 2018, 14:40
20m

Speaker

Ruggero Caravita (GE)

Description

The AEGIS experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator is being set up to precisely measure the gravitational interaction between matter and antimatter. For this purpose, antihydrogen will be formed from cold antiprotons and positronium, the hydrogen-like bound state of an electron and a positron. Subsequently, the free-fall acceleration of a cold horizontal beam of antihydrogen will be measured with a deflectometer. In this talk, the present status, recent experimental progress and the medium-term plan of the AEGIS experiment will be presented.

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Fundamental Symmetries

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