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The AEgIS experiment is presently almost completely installed at CERN. It is currently taking data with antiprotons, electrons and positrons. The apparatus is designed to form a cold, pulsed beam of antihydrogen to measure the Earth’s gravitational acceleration g on antimatter and to perform spectroscopy measurements. This paper describes the main features of the apparatus and shows a selected review of some achieved results.

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  1. Politecnico of Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    S. Aghion, G. Consolati & R. Ferragut

  2. INFN Milano, via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy

    S. Aghion, M. Caccia, F. Castelli, S. Cialdi, G. Consolati, R. Ferragut, M. Giammarchi, F. Prelz & R. Santoro

  3. Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

    C. Amsler, A. Ariga, T. Ariga, A. Ereditato, J. Kawada, M. Kimura, C. Pistillo, P. Scampoli & J. Storey

  4. Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 117312, Russia

    A. Belov, S. Gninenko & V. Matveev

  5. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, via Branze 38, 25123, Brescia, Italy

    G. Bonomi & M. Subieta

  6. INFN Pavia, via Bassi 6, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    G. Bonomi, A. Fontana, C. Riccardi, A. Rotondi & M. Subieta

  7. Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    P. Braunig, A. Demetrio & M. Oberthaler

  8. Physics Department, CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    J. Bremer, H. Derking, M. Doser, A. Dudarev, S. Gerber, S. Haider, C. Malbrunot & S. Rosenberger

  9. Department of Physics, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, 38123, Trento, Italy

    R. Brusa, L. Penasa & L. Ravelli

  10. TIFPA/INFN Trento, via Sommarive 14, 38123, Trento, Italy

    R. Brusa, L. Penasa & L. Ravelli

  11. Laboratory Aimé Cotton, CNRS, University of Paris-Sud, ENS Cachan, Bât. 505, 91405, Orsay, France

    L. Cabaret, D. Comparat & P. Yzombard

  12. Department of Science, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy

    M. Caccia & R. Santoro

  13. Department of Physics, University of Genova, via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy

    R. Caravita, L. Di Noto, D. Krasnický & V. Lagomarsino

  14. Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy

    G. Testera, R. Caravita, S. Curreli, L. Di Noto, V. Lagomarsino, L. Semeria & S. Zavatarelli

  15. Department of Physics, University of Milano, via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy

    F. Castelli, S. Cialdi & Z. Mazzotta

  16. Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

    G. Cerchiari, E. J. Jordan & A. Kellerbauer

  17. Czech Technical University, Prague, Brehová 7, 11519, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    K. Chlouba, V. Petracek, M. Spacek & I. M. Strojek

  18. Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Allégaten 55, 5007, Bergen, Norway

    A. Gligorova, N. Pacifico & H. Sandaker

  19. University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    S. Hogan

  20. Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Sem Sælandsvei 24, 0371, Oslo, Norway

    H. Holmestad, T. Huse & O. M. Røhne

  21. Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    S. Lehner, C. Malbrunot, S. Mariazzi, M. Simon, E. Widmann & J. Zmeskal

  22. INFN Padova, via Marzolo 8, 35131, Padova, Italy

    G. Nebbia

  23. Institute of Nuclear Physics, CNRS/IN2p3, University of Lyon 1, 69622, Villeurbanne, France

    P. Nedelec

  24. University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    M. Prevedelli

  25. Department of Physics, University of Pavia, via Bassi 6, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    C. Riccardi & A. Rotondi

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics (EXA 2014), Vienna, Austria, 15–19 September 2014.

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Testera, G., Aghion, S., Amsler, C. et al. The AEgIS experiment. Hyperfine Interact 233, 13–20 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-015-1165-5

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