Richard Hydomako

Detection of Trapped Antihydrogen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 2010, the ALPHA collaboration achieved a first for mankind: the stable, long-term storage of atomic antimatter, a project carried out a the Antiproton Decelerator facility at CERN. A crucial element of this observation was a dedicated silicon vertexing detector used to identify and analyze antihydrogen annihilations. This thesis reports the methods used to reconstruct the annihilation location. Specifically, the methods used to identify and extrapolate charged particle tracks and estimate the originating annihilation location are outlined. Finally, the experimental results demonstrating the first-ever magnetic confinement of antihydrogen atoms are presented. These results rely heavily on the silicon detector, and as such, the role of the annihilation vertex reconstruction is emphasized.

Produktdetails

• Springer Theses
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86157436, 978-3-642-34483-1
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9783642344831
• ISBN-10: 3642344836
• Artikelnr.: 36552050

Autorenporträt

Dr. Richard Allan Hydomako University of Calgary Department of Physics and Astronomy Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Theory.- The ALPHA Apparatus and Procedures.- The ALPHA Silicon Detector.- Event Reconstruction in the ALPHA Detector.- Rejection of Background Events.- The Trapping of Antihydrogen.