Simulations of antihydrogen formation
- 20 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 70 (2) , 022510
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.70.022510
Abstract
The results of simulations of antihydrogen formation in a Penning trap are reported. The antihydrogen atoms are formed by three-body capture. We find that the arrested nature of the three-body capture in the trap greatly reduces the expected binding energy of the antihydrogen. Typically, the formed antihydrogen has larger velocity along the magnetic field than across the field and a binding energy below .
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