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Measurement of the hyperfine structure of antihydrogen in a beam

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A measurement of the hyperfine structure of antihydrogen promises one of the best tests of CPT symmetry. We describe an experiment planned at the Antiproton Decelerator of CERN to measure this quantity in a beam of slow antihydrogen atoms.

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  1. B. Juhász

    Present address: Lufthansa Systems Hungária Kft., Neumann János utca 1/E, Budapest, 1117, Hungary

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

    E. Widmann, M. Diermaier, B. Juhász, C. Malbrunot, O. Massiczek, C. Sauerzopf, K. Suzuki, B. Wünschek & J. Zmeskal

  2. CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland

    S. Federmann

  3. Institute of Physics, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan

    N. Kuroda

  4. RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    S. Ulmer & Y. Yamazaki

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Supported by the European Research Council grant no. 291242-HBAR-HFS, the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research, and the Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (19002004), JSPS.

The 5th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP 2012), Groningen, The Netherlands, 18–22 June 2012.

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Widmann, E., Diermaier, M., Juhász, B. et al. Measurement of the hyperfine structure of antihydrogen in a beam. Hyperfine Interact 215, 1–8 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-013-0809-6

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