A spectroscopy approach to measure the gravitational mass of antihydrogen

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العنوان: A spectroscopy approach to measure the gravitational mass of antihydrogen
المؤلفون: Voronin, A. Yu., Nesvizhevsky, V. V., Dufour, G., Debu, P., Lambrecht, A., Reynaud, S., Dalkarov, O. D., Kupriyanova, E. A., Froelich, P.
المصدر: Int. J. Mod. Phys. Conf. Ser. 30, 1460266 (2014)
سنة النشر: 2014
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Atomic Physics
الوصف: We study a method to induce resonant transitions between antihydrogen ($\bar{H}$) quantum states above a material surface in the gravitational field of the Earth. The method consists of applying a gradient of magnetic field, which is temporally oscillating with the frequency equal to a frequency of transition between gravitational states of antihydrogen. A corresponding resonant change in the spatial density of antihydrogen atoms could be measured as a function of the frequency of applied field. We estimate an accuracy of measuring antihydrogen gravitational states spacing and show how a value of the gravitational mass of the $\bar{H}$ atom could be deduced from such a measurement. We also demonstrate that a method of induced transitions could be combined with a free-fall-time measurement in order to further improve the precision.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1142/S201019451460266X
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4783
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1403.4783
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1142/S201019451460266X