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In the past conjectures have been made on several methods to determine the antiproton (p̄) proton (p) mass difference with stored counterrotating beams1,2, and recently a proposal was put forward to measure the antiproton mass (mp̄) relative to the H- mass (mH-) at LEAR3 with a high resolution mass spectrometer4. In the following a possibility is outlined to measure the p̄H- mass difference in LEAR itself in a non-destructive way. This will be feasible when LEAR is operating in the p̄H- co-rotating beam mode that was originally proposed for the formation of p̄p atoms in flight5, and when the LEAR electron cooler6 is installed in the ring.
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Poth, H. (1984). A Possibility to Determine the p̄H- Mass Difference with Stored and Cooled P̄ and H- Beams in LEAR. In: Gastaldi, U., Klapisch, R. (eds) Physics at LEAR with Low-Energy Cooled Antiprotons. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8727-5_75
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