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49-667: Low energy antiproton research continues at CERN using the Antiproton Decelerator . It was built as a successor to LEAR and started operation in 2000. After the Antiproton Accumulator (AA) had been operational since 1980, the update program ACOL ( Antiproton COLlector ) was proposed in 1983. The update comprised improvement work on the antiproton source, the construction of the Antiproton Collector (AC), as well as reconstructions of

98-480: A 30 GeV accelerator could be built for the same cost as a 10 GeV accelerator using weak focusing. However, the stronger focusing the higher a precision of alignment of magnets required. This proved a serious problem in the construction of the accelerator. A second problem in the construction period was the machines behavior at an energy called "transition energy". At this point the relative increase in particle velocity changes from being greater to being smaller, causing

147-650: A design study in 1996 with the solution to use the antiproton collector (AC), and transform it into a single Antiproton Decelerator Machine. The AD was approved in February 1997. AC modification, AD installation, and commissioning process were carried out in the next three years. By the end of 1999, the AC ring was modified into a decelerator and cooling system- forming the Antiproton Decelerator. AD's oval-shaped perimeter has four straight sections where

196-423: A number of new members. AEgIS, Antimatter Experiment: gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy, AD-6, is an experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator. AEgIS would attempt to determine if gravity affects antimatter in the same way it affects normal matter by testing its effect on an antihydrogen beam. The first phase of the experiment created antihydrogen using the charge exchange reaction between antiprotons from

245-511: A periodic pattern of light and shadowed areas. Using this pattern, it can be measured how many atoms of different velocities are vertically displaced due to gravity during n their horizontal flight. Therefore, the Earth's gravitational force on antihydrogen can be determined. GBAR (Gravitational Behaviour of Anti hydrogen at Rest), AD-7 experiment, is a multinational collaboration at the Antiproton Decelerator of CERN. The GBAR project aims to measure

294-421: A phenomenon called betatron oscillations . In a conventional synchrotron the focusing of the circulating particles is achieved by weak focusing : the magnetic field that guides the particles around the fixed radius decreases slightly with radius, causing the orbits of the particles with slightly different positions to approximate each other. The amount of focusing in this way is not very great, and consequently

343-519: A tunnel, in which temperature is controlled to ± 1°. Around the circumference, 628 meters, there are 100 magnet units of 4.4 m nominal length, 80 short straight sectors of 1.6 m, and 20 straight sectors of 3 m. Sixteen long straight sections are equipped with acceleration cavities, 20 short ones with quadruple correction lenses, and 20 short ones with sets of sextuple and octuplet lenses. Other straight sections are reserved for beam observation stations and injection devices, targets, and ejection magnets. As

392-513: A vacuum chamber of 12 cm width and 8 cm height, with magnets of about 4000 tonnes total mass. Dahl resigned as head of the project in October 1954 and was replaced by John Adams . By August 1959 the PS was ready for its first beam, and on 24 of November the machine reached a beam energy of 24 GeV. By the end of 1965 the PS was the center of a spider's web of beam lines: It supplied protons to

441-774: Is a particle accelerator at CERN . It is CERN's first synchrotron , beginning its operation in 1959. For a brief period the PS was the world's highest energy particle accelerator . It has since served as a pre-accelerator for the Intersecting Storage Rings ( ISR ) and the Super Proton Synchrotron ( SPS ), and is currently part of the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) accelerator complex. In addition to protons , PS has accelerated alpha particles , oxygen and sulfur nuclei, electrons , positrons , and antiprotons . Today,

490-789: Is a storage ring at the CERN laboratory near Geneva . It was built from the Antiproton Collector (AC) to be a successor to the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) and started operation in the year 2000. Antiprotons are created by impinging a proton beam from the Proton Synchrotron on a metal target. The AD decelerates the resultant antiprotons to an energy of 5.3 MeV, which are then ejected to one of several connected experiments. The major goals of experiments at AD are to spectroscopically observe

539-463: Is a 30 m hexagonal storage ring situated inside the AD complex. It is designed to further decelerate the antiproton beam to an energy of 0.1 MeV for more precise measurements. The first beam circulated ELENA on 18 November 2016. GBAR was the first experiment to use a beam from ELENA, with the rest of the AD experiments to follow suit after LS2 when beam transfer lines from ELENA will have been laid to all

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588-564: Is a multinational collaboration at the Antiproton Decelerator of CERN. The goal of the Japanese/German BASE collaboration are high-precision investigations of the fundamental properties of the antiproton, namely the charge-to-mass ratio and the magnetic moment . The single antiprotons are stored in an advanced Penning trap system, which has a double-trap system at its core, for high precision frequency measurements and for single particle spin flip spectroscopy . By measuring

637-411: Is a type of cyclic particle accelerator , descended from the cyclotron , in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its fixed path increases with time, and is synchronized to the increasing energy of the particles. As the particles travels around the fixed circular path they will oscillate around their equilibrium orbit,

686-497: Is an experiment testing for CPT-symmetry by laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium and microwave spectroscopy of the hyperfine structure of antihydrogen . It compares matter and antimatter using antihydrogen and antiprotonic helium and looks into matter-antimatter collisions. It also measures atomic and nuclear cross-sections of antiprotons on various targets at extremely low energies. The Antiproton Cell Experiment (ACE), AD-4, started in 2003. It aims to assess fully

735-671: The CERN 2 m bubble chamber and additional experiments. Together with the construction of the Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR), an improvement program for the PS was decided in 1965, also making space for the Gargamelle and the Big European Bubble Chamber experiments. The injection energy of the PS was raised by constructing an 800 MeV four ring booster — the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB) — which became operational in 1972. In 1976

784-641: The CLOUD experiment . The PS complex was also remodeled when the AA area was replaced by the Antiproton Decelerator and its experimental area. By increasing the energy of the PSB and the Linac 2, the PS achieved record intensities in 2000 and 2001. During the whole of 2005 PS was shut down: radiation damage had caused aging of the main magnets. The magnets, originally estimated to have a lifetime of less than 10 years, had exceeded

833-581: The ISOLDE -nuclear physics facility at CERN, which will supply the exotic nuclei. Antimatter has never been transported out of the AD facility before. Designing and building a trap for this transportation is the most challenging aspect for the PUMA collaboration. 46°14′02″N 6°02′47″E  /  46.23389°N 6.04639°E  / 46.23389; 6.04639 Proton Synchrotron The Proton Synchrotron ( PS, sometimes also referred to as CPS )

882-608: The Large Electron–Positron Collider ( LEP ). To provide leptons to LEP, three more machines had to been added to the PS complex: LIL-V electron linear accelerator, the LIL-W electron and positron linear accelerator, and the EPA (Electron-Positron Accumulator) storage ring. A modest amount of additional hardware had to be added to modify PS from a 25 GeV proton synchrotron to a 3.5 GeV lepton synchrotron. During this period

931-702: The Proton Synchrotron Booster ( PSB ), which accelerates the protons to 2 GeV, followed by the PS, which pushes the beam to 25 GeV. The protons are then sent to the Super Proton Synchrotron, and accelerated to 450 GeV before they are injected into the LHC. The PS also accelerates heavy ions from the Low Energy Ion Ring ( LEIR ) at an energy of 72 MeV, for collisions in the LHC. The synchrotron (as in Proton Synchrotron )

980-526: The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) became a new client of the PS. When SPS started to operate as a proton – antiproton collider — the Sp p S — the PS had the double task of producing an intense 26 GeV/c proton beam for generating antiprotons at 3.5 GeV/c to be stored in the Antiproton Accumulator ( AA ), and then accelerating the antiprotons to 26 GeV/c for transfer to the SPS. The linear accelerator , now serving

1029-401: The antihydrogen and to study the effects of gravity on antimatter. Though each experiment at AD has varied aims ranging from testing antimatter for cancer therapy to CPT symmetry and antigravity research. From 1982 to 1996, CERN operated the Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) , through which several experiments with slow-moving antiprotons were carried out. During the end stages of LEAR,

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1078-510: The (Sp p S) was shut down, AAC continued to produce antiprotons for LEAR . Operation stopped in 1997, when the AA was dismantled and the AC was converted into the Antiproton Decelerator (AD). The main scope of the Antiproton Collector (AC) was to increase the antiproton luminosity in CERN's accelerator complex. Upgrading to the AC increased the number of available antiprotons tenfold to around 4.5 × 10 antiprotons per second. The reason for this

1127-414: The AD decrease the energy of beams as well as limit the antiproton beam from any significant distortions. Stochastic cooling is applied for antiprotons at 3.5 GeV/c and then at 2 GeV/c, followed by electron cooling at 0.3 GeV/c and at 0.1 GeV/c. The final output beam has a momentum of 0.1 GeV/c ( kinetic energy equal to 5.3 MeV). These antiprotons move with the speed of about one-tenth that of light. But

1176-614: The AD-2 experiment, is a continuation of the TRAP collaboration, which started taking data for the PS196 experiment in 1985. The TRAP experiment (PS196) pioneered cold antiprotons , cold positrons , and first made the ingredients of cold antihydrogen to interact. Later ATRAP members pioneered accurate hydrogen spectroscopy and observed the first hot antihydrogen atoms. Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA), AD-3,

1225-546: The AD-5 experiment, is designed to trap neutral antihydrogen in a magnetic trap , and conduct experiments on them. The ultimate goal of this endeavour is to test CPT symmetry through comparison of the atomic spectra of hydrogen and antihydrogen (see hydrogen spectral series ). The ALPHA collaboration consists of some former members of the ATHENA collaboration (the first group to produce cold antihydrogen, in 2002), as well as

1274-594: The Antiproton Accumulator Complex can be well understood through the analogon of a hydraulic system, which is depicted in the included picture. The tap represents the target systems that produce antiprotons. These are collected in the collector ring with a large acceptance (the funnel). The accumulator ring can be compared to a reservoir, where the antiprotons are accumulated and eventually released as even, well defined bunches. Antiproton Decelerator The Antiproton Decelerator ( AD )

1323-406: The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) and positronium , producing a pulse of antihydrogen atoms. These atoms are sent through a series of diffraction gratings , ultimately hitting a surface and thus annihilating . The points where the antihydrogen annihilates are measured with a precise detector. Areas behind the gratings are shadowed, while those behind the slits are not. The annihilation points reproduce

1372-401: The PS is part of CERN's accelerator complex. It accelerates protons for the LHC as well as a number of other experimental facilities at CERN. Using a negative hydrogen ion source, the ions are first accelerated to the energy of 160 MeV in the linear accelerator Linac 4 . The hydrogen ion is then stripped of both electrons, leaving only the nucleus containing one proton, which is injected into

1421-525: The PSB, was replaced in 1978 by Linac 2 , leading to an further increase in intensity. During this period acceleration of light ions entered the scene. Linac 1, which was replaced by Linac 2, was equipped to accelerate deuterons that were accelerated in the PS, and transferred to the ISR where they collided with protons or deuterons. When the Low Energy Antiproton Ring ( LEAR ), for deceleration and storage of antiprotons, became operational in 1982, PS resumed

1470-623: The South Hall ( Meyrin site ) where an internal target produced five secondary beams, serving a neutrino experiment and a muon storage ring; the North Hall (Meyrin site) where two bubble chambers ( 80 cm hydrogen Saclay , heavy liquid CERN) were fed by an internal target; when the East Hall (Meyrin site) became available in 1963, protons from the PS hit an internal target producing a secondary beam filtered by electrostatic separators to

1519-434: The amplitude of the betatron oscillation to go to zero and loss of stability in the beam. This was solved by a jump , or a sudden shift in the acceleration, in which pulsed quadruples made the protons traverse the transition energy level much faster. The PS was approved in October 1953, as a synchrotron of 25 GeV energy with a radius of 72 meter, and a budget of 120 million Swiss franc . The focusing strength chosen required

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1568-418: The amplitudes of the betatron oscillations are large. Weak focusing requires a large vacuum chamber, and consequently big magnets. Most of the cost of a conventional synchrotron is the magnets. The PS was the first accelerator at CERN that made use of the alternating-gradient principle , also called strong focusing: quadrupole magnets are used to alternately focus horizontally and vertically many times around

1617-404: The circumference of the accelerator. The focusing of the particle can in theory become as strong as one wishes, and the amplitude of the betatron oscillations as small as desired. The net result is that you can reduce the cost of the magnets. When early in the 1950s the plans for a European laboratory of particle physics began to take shape, two different accelerator projects emerged. One machine

1666-547: The deceleration and cooling systems are placed. There are several dipole and quadrupole magnets in these sections to avoid beam dispersion . Antiprotons are cooled and decelerated in a single 100-second cycle in the AD synchrotron. AD requires about 10 13 {\displaystyle \mathrm {10^{13}} } protons of momentum 26 GeV/c to produce 5 × 10 7 {\displaystyle \mathrm {5\times 10^{7}} } antiprotons per minute. The high-energy protons coming from

1715-524: The demand for heavier ions to be delivered as a primary beam to the SPS North experimental hall ( Prévessin site ) also increased. Both sulfur and oxygen ions were accelerated with great success. After the end of operation as a LEP injector, the PS started a new period of operation in preparation as LHC injector and for new fixed-target experiments. New experiments started running in the East area, such as

1764-489: The effectiveness and suitability of antiprotons for cancer therapy . The results showed that antiprotons required to break down the tumor cells were four times less than the number of protons required. The effect on healthy tissues due to antiprotons was significantly less. Although the experiment ended in 2013, further research and validation still continue, owing to the long procedures of bringing in novel medical treatments. The Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA),

1813-401: The estimate by more than a factor of four, and went through a refurbishment program. The tunnel was emptied, magnets refurbished, and the machine realigned. In 2008 PS started operating as a pre-accelerator to the LHC. Simultaneously the ion operation changed: LEAR was converted into a storage ring — the Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) — and the PSB stopped being an ion injector. The PS is built in

1862-509: The experiments need much lower energy beams (3 to 5 KeV). So the antiprotons are again decelerated to ~5 KeV, using the degrader foils. This step accounts for the loss of 99.9% of antiprotons. The collected antiprotons are then temporarily stored in the Penning traps ; before being fed into the several AD experiments. The Penning traps can also form antihydrogen by combining antiprotons with the positrons . ELENA (Extra Low ENergy Antiproton)

1911-494: The experiments using the facility. ATHENA , AD-1 experiment, was an antimatter research project that took place at the Antiproton Decelerator. In August 2002, it was the first experiment to produce 50,000 low-energy antihydrogen atoms, as reported in Nature . In 2005, ATHENA was disbanded and many of the former members worked on the subsequent ALPHA experiment . The Antihydrogen Trap (ATRAP) collaboration, responsible for

1960-486: The free-fall acceleration of ultra-cold neutral anti-hydrogen atoms in the terrestrial gravitational field . By measuring the free fall acceleration of anti-hydrogen and comparing it with acceleration of normal hydrogen, GBAR is testing the equivalence principle proposed by Albert Einstein . The equivalence principle says that the gravitational force on a particle is independent of its internal structure and composition. BASE (Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment), AD-8,

2009-543: The group were among others Rolf Widerøe , Frank Kenneth Goward , and John Adams . After a visit to the Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US, the group learnt of a new idea for making cheaper and higher energy machines: alternating-gradient focusing . The idea was so attractive that the study of a 10 GeV synchrotron was dropped, and a study of a machine implementing the new idea initiated. Using this principle

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2058-577: The injection and ejection systems of the Antiproton Accumulator (AA) and its stochastic cooling system. The estimated budget of the upgrade program was 40.2 million CHF. The changes were implemented during 1986 and 1987, with the AC getting constructed tightly around the existing AA ring. The Antiproton Accumulator Complex (AAC) served its last particles to the Proton-Antiproton Collider Sp p S in 1991. After

2107-433: The new role of an antiproton decelerator. It decelerated antiprotons from the AA to 180 MeV, and injected them into LEAR. During this period the PS complex truly earned its nickname of "versatile particle factory". Up to 1996, PS would regularly accelerate ions for SPS fixed-target experiments, protons for the East Hall or antiproton production at AA, decelerate protons for LEAR, and later accelerate electrons and positrons for

2156-661: The physics community involved in those antimatter experiments wanted to continue their studies with the slow antiprotons. The motivation to build the AD grew out of the Antihydrogen Workshop held in Munich in 1992. This idea was carried forward quickly and AD's feasibility study was completed by 1995. In 1996, the CERN Council asked the Proton Synchrotron (PS) division to look into the possibility of generating slow antiproton beams. The PS division prepared

2205-412: The proton synchrotron are made to collide with a thin, highly dense rod of iridium metal of 3-mm diameter and 55 cm in length. The iridium rod embedded in graphite and enclosed by a sealed water-cooled titanium case remains intact. But the collisions create a lot of energetic particles, including the antiprotons. A magnetic bi-conical aluminum horn-type lens collects the antiprotons emerging from

2254-529: The spin flip rate as a function of the frequency of an externally applied magnetic-drive, a resonance curve is obtained. Together with a measurement of the cyclotron frequency, the magnetic moment is extracted. The PUMA (antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation experiment), AD-9, aims to look into the quantum interactions and annihilation processes between the antiprotons and the exotic slow-moving nuclei . PUMA's experimental goals require about one billion trapped antiprotons made by AD and ELENA to be transported to

2303-493: The target. This collector takes in the 3.5 GeV/c antiprotons, and they are separated from other particles using deflection through electromagnetic forces. Radio frequency (RF) systems decelerate and bunch the cooled antiprotons at 3.5 GeV/c. Numerous magnets inside focus the randomly moving antiprotons into a collimated beam and bend the beam. Simultaneously the electric fields further decelerate them. Stochastic cooling and electron cooling stages designed inside

2352-617: Was the much larger acceptance of the AC compared to the Antiproton Accumulator (AA) alone. Additionally, several methods to compress the antiproton beams' phase space volume were applied, e.g. stochastic cooling . The antiprotons were produced by accelerating protons onto a target. The resulting antiprotons emitted by the target material had a large divergence , which called for special devices to focus them. Instead of quadrupole magnets , which are conventionally used to focus particle beams, rods of solid lithium with an applied high gradient magnetic field were implemented. The functionality of

2401-434: Was to be of standard type, easy and relatively fast and cheap to build: the synchrocyclotron , achieving collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 600 MeV. The second device was a much more ambitious undertaking: an accelerator bigger than any other then existing, a synchrotron that could accelerate protons up to an energy of 10 GeV – the PS. By May 1952 a design group was set up with Odd Dahl in charge. Other members of

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