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The performance of proposed antihydrogen spectroscopy or gravity experiments will crucially depend on the temperature of the initial antihydrogen sample. Measurements by ATRAP and ATHENA have shown that antihydrogen produced with the nested-trap technique is much hotter than the temperature of the surrounding trap. Therefore, novel schemes for antihydrogen recombination as well as for the pre-cooling of antiprotons are being considered. We are investigating a possible antiproton cooling technique based on the laser cooling of negative osmium ions. If demonstrated to be successful, it will allow the sympathetic cooling of antiprotons—or any negatively charged particles—to microkelvin temperatures. As a first milestone toward the laser cooling of negative ions, we have performed collinear laser spectroscopy on negative osmium and determined the transition frequency and the cross-section of the relevant bound–bound electric-dipole transition.
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Kellerbauer, A., Canali, C., Fischer, A. et al. Ultracold antiprotons by indirect laser cooling . Hyperfine Interact 194, 77–83 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-009-0033-6
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