Synthesis of cold antihydrogen in a cusp trap

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Dec 10;105(24):243401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.243401. Epub 2010 Dec 7.

Abstract

We report here the first successful synthesis of cold antihydrogen atoms employing a cusp trap, which consists of a superconducting anti-Helmholtz coil and a stack of multiple ring electrodes. This success opens a new path to make a stringent test of the CPT symmetry via high precision microwave spectroscopy of ground-state hyperfine transitions of antihydrogen atoms.