The ALPHA antihydrogen trapping apparatus

The ALPHA collaboration, based at CERN, has recently succeeded in confining cold antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic minimum neutral atom trap and has performed the first study of a resonant transition of the anti-atoms. The ALPHA apparatus will be described herein, with emphasis on the structural aspects, diagnostic methods and techniques that have enabled antihydrogen trapping and experimentation to be achieved.

John W. V. Storey | K. Olchanski | Gorm B. Andresen | Brett Parker | P. J. Nolan | Jonathan S. Wurtele | D. Wells | Robert Thompson | E. Butler | M. E. Hayden | J. Escallier | Leonid Kurchaninov | Andrew Marone | J. Wurtele | J. Fajans | G. Andresen | B. Parker | A. Marone | S. Eriksson | P. Bowe | M. Fujiwara | J. Hangst | R. Hayano | L. Jørgensen | N. Madsen | D. P. Werf | W. Bertsche | A. Capra | M. Charlton | T. Friesen | D. Gill | M. Hayden | C. A. Isaac | S. Jonsell | S. Menary | K. Olchanski | A. Olin | P. Pusa | F. Robicheaux | D. M. Silveira | C. So | C. L. Cesar | M. D. Ashkezari | M. Baquero-Ruiz | E. Butler | S. Chapman | A. Deller | A. Gutierrez | A. Humphries | R. Hydomako | M. J. Jenkins | P. Nolan | A. Povilus | S. Nasr | J. Storey | C. Amole | L. Kurchaninov | E. Sarid | D. Seddon | J. Thornhill | D. Wells | J. Escallier | William Bertsche | A. Capra | M. Charlton | Stefan Eriksson | Joel Fajans | T. Friesen | M. C. Fujiwara | D. R. Gill | A. Gutierrez | Svante Jonsell | Niels Madsen | J. T. K. McKenna | Francis Robicheaux | D. P. van der Werf | Scott R. Menary | C. Amole | M. Baquero-Ruiz | P. D. Bowe | P. T. Carpenter | Scott Chapman | A. Deller | J. S. Hangst | Walter Hardy | R. S. Hayano | A. J. Humphries | J. L. Hurt | R. Hydomako | L. V. Jørgensen | S. J. Kerrigan | A. Olin | Alexander Povilus | Petteri Pusa | E. Sarid | D. Seddon | S. Seif El Nasr | Chukman So | J. Thornhill | Y. Yamazaki | J. McKenna | Y. Yamazaki | R. Thompson | W. Hardy | L. Kurchaninov | M. Jenkins

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