Road transport of trapped antiprotons
M. Leonhardt, J. Morgner, F. Abbass, K. K. Anjum, B. Arndt, R. P. Czampiel, N. Daehnhardt, S. Endoh, T. Imamura, J. I. Jäger, L. Kürschner, B. M. Latacz, P. Micke, D. Natakala, R. Rahner, D. Schweitzer, S. Stahl, F. Völksen, H. Yildiz, K. Blaum, J. A. Devlin, Y. Matsuda, C. Ospelkaus, W. Quint, A. S · 2026
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Description
Leonhardt and a large team of co-authors report moving trapped antimatter by road, in a paper dated 2026. Antiprotons held in Penning traps allow the sharpest tests of whether matter and antimatter obey the same rules. Until now those tests could only run at CERN, where the factory's own magnetic noise caps their precision.
The team built a portable, cryogenic trap system designed to carry antiprotons to quieter labs elsewhere. Moving the particles off site could sharpen symmetry tests a hundredfold. The paper describes the transport system and its first road journey with trapped antiprotons. Success would free precision antimatter physics from one noisy hall and open satellite labs for fundamental measurements.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | M. Leonhardt, J. Morgner, F. Abbass, K. K. Anjum, B. Arndt, R. P. Czampiel, N. Daehnhardt, S. Endoh, T. Imamura, J. I. Jäger, L. Kürschner, B. M. Latacz, P. Micke, D. Natakala, R. Rahner, D. Schweitzer, S. Stahl, F. Völksen, H. Yildiz, K. Blaum, J. A. Devlin, Y. Matsuda, C. Ospelkaus, W. Quint, A. S |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |