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Resonance spectroscopy of gravitational states of antihydrogen

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We study a method to induce resonant transitions between antihydrogen (\(\bar {H}\)) quantum states above a material surface in the gravitational field of the Earth. The method consists in applying a gradient of magnetic field which is temporally oscillating with the frequency equal to a frequency of a transition between gravitational states of antihydrogen. Corresponding resonant change in a spatial density of antihydrogen atoms can be measured as a function of the frequency of applied field. We estimate an accuracy of measuring antihydrogen gravitational states spacing and show how a value of the gravitational mass of the \(\bar {H}\) atom can be deduced from such a measurement.

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  1. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, 53 Leninsky prospect, 117924, Moscow, Russia

    A. Yu. Voronin, O. D. Dalkarov & E. A. Kupriyanova

  2. Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38042, Grenoble, France

    V. V. Nesvizhevsky

  3. Department of Quantum Chemistry, Uppsala University, Box 518, 75120, Uppsala, Sweden

    P. Froelich

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Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP 2013) held in Uppsala, Sweden, 10–15 June, 2013

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Voronin, A.Y., Nesvizhevsky, V.V., Dalkarov, O.D. et al. Resonance spectroscopy of gravitational states of antihydrogen. Hyperfine Interact 228, 133–139 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-014-1023-x

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