Beam Diagnostics for Measurements of In-Flight Annihilation Cross Sections of Antiprotons at 130 keV

Hossein Aghai-Khozani1,2, Daniel Barna3,4, Maurizio Corradini5,6, Ryugo Hayano4, Masaki Hori1,4, Takumi Kobayashi4, Marco Leali5,6, Evandro Lodi-Rizzini5,6, Valerio Mascagna5,6, Michela Prest7,8, Anna Soter1, Koichi Todoroki4, Erik Vallazza9, Luca Venturelli5,6, and Nicola Zurlo5,6 1Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany 2Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland 3Wigner Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary 4Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 5Dipartimento di Collegato di Brescia, 25133 Brescia, Italy 6INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Brescia, 25133 Brescia, Italy 7Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche, Universita di Como, I-22100 Como, Italy 8INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy 9INFN, Sezione di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy

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