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Fast antihydrogen beam spectroscopy

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The motivation for production and precision spectroscopy of antihydrogen atoms is outlined. An experimental configuration is considered, concerning laser-microwave spectroscopy of a fast hydroten beam with characteristics similar to those of an antihydrogen beam emanating from an antiproton-positron overlap region in an antiproton storage ring. In particular, a possible experiment for the measurement of the ground state hyperfine structure splitting is described.

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Neumann, R. Fast antihydrogen beam spectroscopy. Hyperfine Interact 44, 305–314 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02398679

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