Confinement of a large number of antiprotons and production of an ultraslow antiproton beam

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Jan 21;94(2):023401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.023401. Epub 2005 Jan 18.

Abstract

We have used a radio frequency quadrupole decelerator to decelerate antiprotons emerging from the CERN Antiproton Decelerator from MeV- to keV-scale energy, and collected five decelerated pulses in a multiring trap. Some 5 x 10(6) antiprotons were stacked in this way. Cooling of the trapped antiprotons by a simultaneously trapped electron plasma was studied nondestructively via shifts in plasma mode frequencies. We have also demonstrated the first step in extracting a 10-500 eV antiproton beam from the trap.