First elements of the PUMA experiment installed in the AD facility

Clara Klink, PhD student posing near the current set up of the PUMA experiment . The antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation (PUMA) is an experiment at the Antiproton decelerator (AD) facility which aims to look into the quantum interactions and annihilation processes between the antiprotons and the exotic slow-moving nuclei. PUMA's experimental goals require about one billion trapped antiprotons made by AD and ELENA to be transported to the ISOLDE-nuclear physics facility at CERN, which will supply the exotic nuclei. Antimatter has never been transported out of the AD facility before. Designing and building a trap for this transportation is the most challenging aspect for the PUMA collaboration.