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Design of a Radial TPC for Antihydrogen Gravity Measurement with ALPHA-g
The gravitational interaction of antimatter and matter has never been directly probed. ALPHA-g is a novel experiment that aims to perform the first measurement of the antihydrogen gravitational mass. A fundamental requirement for this new apparatus is a position sensitive particle detector around th...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7566/JPSCP.18.011015 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2217549 |
Sumario: | The gravitational interaction of antimatter and matter has never been directly probed. ALPHA-g is a novel experiment that aims to perform the first measurement of the antihydrogen gravitational mass. A fundamental requirement for this new apparatus is a position sensitive particle detector around the antihydrogen trap which provides information about antihydrogen annihilation location. The proposed detector is a radial Time Projection Chamber, or rTPC, whose concept is being developed at TRIUMF. A simulation of the detector and the development of the reconstruction software, used to determine the antihydrogen annihilation point, is presented alongside with the expected performance of the rTPC. |
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