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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review A Année : 2020

Stimulated decay and formation of antihydrogen atoms

Tim Wolz
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Chloé Malbrunot
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

Antihydrogen atoms are routinely formed at the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN in a wide range of Rydberg states. To perform precision measurements, experiments rely on ground-state antimatter atoms which are currently obtained only after spontaneous decay. In order to enhance the number of atoms in ground state, we propose and assess the efficiency of different methods to stimulate their decay. First, we investigate the use of THz radiation to simultaneously couple all n-manifolds down to a low-lying one with sufficiently fast spontaneous emission toward ground state. We further study a deexcitation scheme relying on state mixing via microwave and/or THz light and a coupled (visible) deexcitation laser. We obtain close to unity ground-state fractions within a few tens of μs for a population initiated in the n=30 manifold. Finally, we study how the production of antihydrogen atoms via stimulated radiative recombination can favorably change the initial distribution of states and improve the overall number of ground-state atoms when combined with stimulated deexcitation.

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hal-02432609 , version 1 (08-01-2020)

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Tim Wolz, Chloé Malbrunot, Mélissa Vieille-Grosjean, Daniel Comparat. Stimulated decay and formation of antihydrogen atoms. Physical Review A, 2020, 101 (4), pp.043412. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevA.101.043412⟩. ⟨hal-02432609⟩
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