Time-of-flight apparatus for the measurement of slow positronium emitted by nanochannel converters at cryogenic temperatures

Guatieri, F.; Mariazzi, S.; Penasa, L.; Nebbia, G.; Hugenschmidt, Christoph; Brusa, R. S.

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2021.03.029

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“…This problem could be circumvented by sending the 1 3 S → 3 3 P laser pulse without further delays (20 ns from the positron implantation in the target) but keeping the e + /Ps converter at a temperature lower than room temperature. Indeed, the production of slower 2 3 S Ps without sacrificing the produced amount has been observed in similar e + /Ps converters held at cryogenic temperatures [33,56,57].…”

Section: Use Of Slower 2 3 S Along the Beam Directionmentioning

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Toward inertial sensing with a 23S positronium beam

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In this work, we discuss the possibility of inertial sensing with positronium in the 2 3 S metastable state for the measurement of optical dipole, relativistic and gravitational forces on a purely leptonic matter-antimatter system. Starting from the characteristics of an available 2 3 S beam, we estimate the time necessary to measure accelerations ranging from ∼ 10 5 m/s 2 to 9.1 m/s 2 with two different inertial sensitive devices: a classical moiré deflectometer and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The sensitivity of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer has been estimated to be several tens of times better than that of the moiré deflectometer, for the same measurement time. Different strategies to strengthen the 2 3 S beam flux and to improve the sensitivity of the devices are proposed and analyzed. Among them, the most promising are reducing the divergence of the positronium beam through 2D laser Doppler cooling and coherent positronium Raman excitation from the ground state to the 2 3 S level. If implemented, these improvements promise to result in the time required to measure an acceleration of 9.1 m/s 2 of few weeks and 100 m/s 2 of a few hours. Different detection schemes for resolving the fringe pattern shift generated on 2 3 S positronium crossing the deflectometer/interferometer are also discussed.

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Section: Use Of Slower 2 3 S Along the Beam Directionmentioning

confidence: 90%