AEGIS: an experiment to test Weak Equivalence Principle on Antihydrogen

by Dr Marco Giammarchi (INFN Milano)

Monday 11 May 2009, 14:15 → 15:45 Europe/Berlin

Seminar room 3344 (Physics Department I, Garching)

A cold antihydrogen beam will be used in the AEGIS experiment to perform gravity measurements on antimatter. Antihydrogen will be obtained by charge exchange reaction of positrons on cold antiprotons. The antimatter beam will be accelerated by a Stark accelerator and the vertical displacement will be measured on a Moire' deflectometer. The expected sensitivity is of 1% on the antihydrogen g constant.

document Giammarchi_110509.pdf