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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...

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Autores principales: Capra, Andrea, Amaudruz, Pierre-André, Bishop, Daryl, Fujiwara, Makoto C., Freeman, Skyler, Gill, David, Grant, Matthew, Henderson, Robert, Kurchaninov, Leonid, Lu, Philip, Menary, Scott, Olchanski, Konstantin, Retiere, Fabrice
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.7566/JPSCP.18.011015
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2217549
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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.