Projects

To fully exploit the potential of the ELENA and USR research infrastructures, the AVA partners proposed to carry out a closely connected R&D program in the following three work packages:

Facility Design and Optimization, addressing beam life time and stability in lowest energy storage rings, as well as beam cooling, deceleration and extraction through simulation and experimental studies, as well as innovative control systems;

 

‌Design, development and testing of novel Beam Diagnostics and establishment of a dedicated test stand, to fully determine the characteristics of an antiproton beam;

 

 

‌‌Design of novel low energy Antimatter Experiments through R&D into beyond state-of-the-art beam handling, storing and analysis techniques.

 

 

The following projects were undertaken at partner institutions:

University of Liverpool

• Beam stability and life time in low energy storage rings 
• A DMD based beam halo and emittance monitor 
• 6-D studies into beam motion in low energy storage rings 

CERN

• Generation of cold electrons for an eV electron cooler
• Instrumentation and detector beam line and test stand 

CIVIDEC

• Novel diamond-based detector for beam characterization 
• Beam Diagnostics and Particle Detection

Cosylab

• Development of a versatile control system 

FOTON

• High stability, rampable power supplies for keV ion beams

FZJ

•  Liquid Target-based Antiproton Detectors 

GSI

• Ultra-sensitive Beam Intensity Measurement 
  
• Reservoir trap to deliver single antiparticles to Penning trap experiments 
  

MPG

• Sympathetic Cooling of Antiprotons 

OEAW

• Ramsey technique to measure ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen 

Stahl-Electronics

• Cryogenic detectors for low energy particle detection

University of Manchester

• Optimization of degrader integration, beam injection and B-field measurements