Measurement of Ultralow Heating Rates of a Single Antiproton in a Cryogenic Penning Trap

Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Feb 1;122(4):043201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.043201.

Abstract

We report on the first detailed study of motional heating in a cryogenic Penning trap using a single antiproton. Employing the continuous Stern-Gerlach effect we observe cyclotron quantum transition rates of 6(1) quanta/h and an electric-field noise spectral density below 7.5(3.4)×10^{-20} V^{2} m^{-2} Hz^{-1}, which corresponds to a scaled noise spectral density below 8.8(4.0)×10^{-12} V^{2} m^{-2}, results which are more than 2 orders of magnitude smaller than those reported by other ion-trap experiments.