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Development of a cold atomic muonium beam for next generation atomic physics and gravity experiments
by Anna Soter, Andreas Knecht
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| Authors (as Contributors): | Anna Soter |
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| Preprint link: | scipost_202106_00044v2 |
| Date accepted: | 2021-08-12 |
| Date submitted: | 2021-08-01 13:06 |
| Submitted by: | Soter, Anna |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Proceedings |
| Proceedings issue: | Review of Particle Physics at PSI |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Experimental |
Abstract
A high-intensity, low-emittance atomic muonium (M) beam is being developed, which would enable improving the precision of M spectroscopy measurements, and may allow a direct observation of the M gravitational interaction. Measuring the free fall of M atoms would be the first test of the weak equivalence principle using elementary antimatter ($\mu^+$) and a purely leptonic system. Such an experiment relies on the high intensity, continuous muon beams available at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland), and a proposed novel M source. In this paper, the theoretical motivation and principles of this experiment are described.
Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 5, 031 (2021)
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