Category: News
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Carlsberg supports ALPHA
The Carlsberg Foundation of Denmark has awarded a large research grant to ALPHA Spokesperson Professor Jeffrey Hangst of Aarhus University. The award, of 3.3 million Danish kroner, will be used to purchase a new superconducting solenoid magnet for our next generation antihydrogen trapping device, known as ALPHA-2. In 2012, the ALPHA 2 machine will replace
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APS Prize awarded to ALPHA Members
The American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics awarded its John Dawson award for excellence in plasma physics research to several ALPHA members. Will Bertsche, Paul Bowe, Mike Charlton, Joel Fajans, Makoto Fujiwara, Jeffrey Hangst, Niels Madsen, Francis Robicheaux, Daniel Silveira, Dirk Van der Werf and Jonathan Wurtele were cited “For the introduction and use
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First ELENA Construction Meeting Kicks Off
The first construction meeting for the Extra-Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA) Ring kicks off at CERN today. ELENA, approved by the CERN research board last July, is an additional ring in the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) building, designed to slow the 3.5 MeV beam from the AD to 100keV before delivering the beam to the experiments. What
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Antihydrogen Atoms trapped for 1000s
In a paper published online at Nature Physics, ALPHA announces confinement of antihydrogen atoms for at least 1000s. Last November, we announced in Nature that we had successfuly trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms for at least 172 ms. In fact, 172 ms is the shortest time we can trap atoms and be sure that we’ve removed
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Beam!
The first beam of the 2011 season was delivered to ALPHA from the AD (Antiproton Decelerator) on the night of May 9th. The image here shows some of the first antiprotons captured in the trap. It's produced by dumping the particles onto an MCP/phosphor – the bright circular shape is the electron plasma used to
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ALPHA at the Low Energy Antiproton Physics Conference
The Low Energy Antiproton Physics Conference, held every two years, is one of the most important conferences for the antihydrogen community. This year, more than fifteen members of the ALPHA Collaboration travelled to TRIUMF, in Vacouver, Canada to present results and discuss with the rest of the community. The conference, which had ALPHA member Makoto
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ALPHA on the Cover of the CERN Courier
ALPHA’s recently announced achievement of trapping antihydrogen atoms has created quite a stir. Now, a stylised view of the ALPHA apparatus has made it to the front cover of the CERN Courier. Read more about ALPHA in the CERN Courier here.
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ALPHA is #1 Physics Breakthrough of the year
Physics World, the international physics magazine produced by the Institute of Physics, has named ALPHA’s recent trapping of antihydrogen as part of the #1 physics breakthrough of 2010, jointly with the ASACUSA Collaboration’s formation of antihydrogen in a ‘cusp’ trap. The complete list of ten breakthroughs from 2010 includes measurements of the atmosphere of an