SSP2012 - 5th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics

The progress in producing and trapping antihydrogen [1-3] in the last decade has opened up the way to perform stringent tests of the validity of the CPT theorem (charge conjugation, parity and time reversal symmetry) using a purely anti-atomic system. The comparison of the 1S-2S transition in antihydrogen with that of hydrogen, of which the latter is measured with a relative accuracy of about...

Antiprotonic helium is a metastable three-body neutral atom consisting of an antiproton, a helium nucleus and an electron, which we serendipitously discovered some 20 years ago. The antiproton, which normally annihilates within a few picoseconds when injected into matter, can be "stored" in this system for up to several microseconds, and laser spectroscopy is possible within this time window....

Low-energy antiprotons are an ideal tool to study fundamental symmetries, especially CPT symmetry, by the precision spectroscopy of exotic atoms containing an antiproton. The investigation of the hyperfine structure of such atoms allows first of all the determination of the antiproton magnetic moment, the most precise value of which was obtained recently by the ASACUSA collaboration at the...