We demonstrate temporally controlled modulation of cold antihydrogen production by periodic RF heating of a positron plasma during antiproton-positron mixing in a Penning trap. Our observations have established a pulsed source of atomic antimatter, with a rise time of about 1 s, and a pulse length ranging from 3 to 100 s. Time-sensitive antihydrogen detection and positron plasma diagnostics, both capabilities of the ATHENA apparatus, allowed detailed studies of the pulsing behavior, which in turn gave information on the dependence of the antihydrogen production process on the positron temperature T. Our data are consistent with power law scaling T 1:1 0:5 for the production rate in the high temperature regime from 100 meV up to 1.5 eV. This is not in accord with the behavior accepted for conventional three-body recombination.

Temporally controlled modulation of antihydrogen production and the temperature scaling of antiproton-positron recombination

BONOMI, Germano;LODI RIZZINI, Evandro;VENTURELLI, Luca;ZURLO, Nicola
2008-01-01

Abstract

We demonstrate temporally controlled modulation of cold antihydrogen production by periodic RF heating of a positron plasma during antiproton-positron mixing in a Penning trap. Our observations have established a pulsed source of atomic antimatter, with a rise time of about 1 s, and a pulse length ranging from 3 to 100 s. Time-sensitive antihydrogen detection and positron plasma diagnostics, both capabilities of the ATHENA apparatus, allowed detailed studies of the pulsing behavior, which in turn gave information on the dependence of the antihydrogen production process on the positron temperature T. Our data are consistent with power law scaling T 1:1 0:5 for the production rate in the high temperature regime from 100 meV up to 1.5 eV. This is not in accord with the behavior accepted for conventional three-body recombination.
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