”aegis physics possibilities”
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”AEGIS physics possibilities”. Outline: - The Aegis experiment / ”Norwegian history” - Atomic & optical physics group & Rydberg atoms & processes - Possibilities. Jan Petter Hansen, Town Meeting, Bergen 13.04.2009. AEGIS: Anti matter Experiment for Gravity, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
”AEGIS physics possibilities”
Outline:
- The Aegis experiment / ”Norwegian history”
- Atomic & optical physics group & Rydberg atoms & processes
- Possibilities....
Jan Petter Hansen, Town Meeting, Bergen 13.04.2009
The primary scientific goal of AEGIS is the direct measurement of the Earth’s local
gravitational acceleration g on anti-hydrogen.
http://aegis.web.cern.ch/aegis/
AEGIS: Anti matter Experiment for Gravity, Interferemotry and Spectroscopy
”The proposal is very original and could potentially revolutionise physics.”
Overall mark: 6 Result: Reject.
Theory: Rydberg wavepacket simulations, Quantum control and Rydberg Antimatter dynamics
Experiment: Rydberg wavepackets, Coherent control, Molecular Rydberg transients & Rydberg movies
NFR FRINAT GRANT – 2010-2013 (~7Mkr)
Atomic and optical physics @ UiB:
Øyvind Frette, Assoc. Professor
Jan Petter Hansen, Professor
Ladislav Kocbach, Professor
Jakob J. Stamnes, Professor
6 Dr. gradsstudenter7 Mastergradsstudenter
Morten FørreForsker
Børge HamreEngineer
Outdoor UV lab(s)...
Inhouse Femtosecond laserlab
Inhouse Femtosecond laserlab
(Rydberg) atoms, molecules and quantum dots in time dependent fields
Example: The dipole approximation breakes down for intense fields
Example: Two paths coherent optical control in quantumdots.
Rydberg atoms:
• Controllable and perfect transitions from state to state
Can Rydberg antiatoms be controlled to the same level?
Possibilities:
• The AEGIS experiment will very likely lead to exciting atomic physics studies– quantum control of anti matter in time dependent EM
fields– decoherence of mesoscopic (anti-) systems– Cold antimatter / Atimatter condensates
• Opens for collaboration between fields (atomic, quantum optics, particle physics communities) and between small scale and large scale science.
• Support for experimental activity is necessary!