Events in Physics
Michael Doser (CERN): Testing Fundamental Physics with Anti-Hydrogen and other antiprotonic atoms"
The precise study of antihydrogen atoms and of antiprotonic atoms relies on a wide range of atomic physics techniques and will furthermore be boosted by the start-up of a dedicated low energy antiproton decelerator (ELENA) at CERN this year. This presentation will provide an overview of the present status and outlook for fundamental physics with antihydrogen atoms. A special focus will be put on future tests of gravity with antimatter and on the AEgIS experiment, which inter alia aims to measure the free fall of a pulsed beam of antihydrogen atoms over their parabolic trajectory, as well as on the technological developments from a variety of fields on which it relies. This talk will also touch on some of the more exotic, more sensitive or completely novel approaches to studies of a wide range of nuclei and their isotopes that pulsed formation of antiprotonic atoms might permit.