Andresen GB, Ashkezari MD, Baquero-Ruiz M, Bertsche W, Bowe PD, Butler E, Carpenter PT, Cesar CL, Chapman S, Charlton M, Fajans J, Friesen T, Fujiwara MC, Gill DR, Hangst JS, Hardy WN, Hayden ME, Humphries AJ, Hurt JL, Hydomako R, Jonsell S, Madsen N, Menary S, Nolan P, Olchanski K, Olin A, Povilus A, Pusa P, Robicheaux F, Sarid E, Silveira DM, So C, Storey JW, Thompson RI, van der Werf DP, Wurtele JS, Yamazaki Y. Autoresonant excitation of antiproton plasmas.
Phys Rev Lett 2011;
106:025002. [PMID:
21405235 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.106.025002]
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Abstract
We demonstrate controllable excitation of the center-of-mass longitudinal motion of a thermal antiproton plasma using a swept-frequency autoresonant drive. When the plasma is cold, dense, and highly collective in nature, we observe that the entire system behaves as a single-particle nonlinear oscillator, as predicted by a recent theory. In contrast, only a fraction of the antiprotons in a warm plasma can be similarly excited. Antihydrogen was produced and trapped by using this technique to drive antiprotons into a positron plasma, thereby initiating atomic recombination.
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