Published 2019 | Version v1
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Monte-Carlo simulation of positronium laser excitation and anti-hydrogen formation via charge exchange

Description

The AEgIS experiment aims at producing antihydrogen (and eventually measuring the effects of the Earth gravitational field on it) with a method based on the charge exchange reaction between antiproton and Rydberg positronium. To be precise, antiprotons are delivered by the CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD) and are trapped in a multi-ring Penning trap, while positronium is produced by a nanoporous silica target and is excited to Rydberg states by means of a two steps laser excitation. New Monte Carlo simulations are presented in this paper in order to investigate the current status of the AEgIS experiment [1] and to interpret the recently collected data [2].

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http://hdl.handle.net/11567/960087
URN
urn:oai:iris.unige.it:11567/960087

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