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Exciting antiprotons

机译:令人兴奋的反质子

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In a 1991 News & Views article1 on the ingenious means by which positrons, the antiparticle counterpart of electrons, were used in materials science, John Maddox, the then editor of Nature, asked: "Can any anti-particle make a probe?" What prompted the question was the discovery2 that a few per cent of the antiprotons injected and stopped in liquid helium were trapped in long-lived (metastable) states, with lifetimes of several microseconds. Twenty years down the line, Maddox s poser can be answered with an unequivocal 'yes'. The three-body atomic system that is formed when an antiproton replaces one of the electrons in a helium atom has proved a superb probe for fundamental physics. In the latest advance, Hori and co-workers3 (page 484) describe a trick that has enabled transitions between selected energy levels of the antiprotonic helium to be measured with unprecedented precision. The bottom line is that these measurements, when combined with theory4, have allowed, among other things, a more accurate value of the antiproton-to-electron mass ratio to be determined in order to compare it with the proton equivalent.
机译:在1991年《新闻与观点》(News&Views)的一篇文章1中,有关材料科学中正电子(电子的反粒子对等物)的巧妙运用,当时的《自然》杂志的编辑约翰·麦道克斯(John Maddox)问道:“任何反粒子都能探测吗?”引发问题的是发现2,注入并停止在液氦中的反质子中有百分之几被捕获为长寿命(可转移)状态,寿命为几微秒。二十年来,Maddox的装腔作势者可以用明确的“是”回答。当反质子取代氦原子中的一个电子时,形成的三体原子系统已被证明是基础物理学的绝妙探针。在最新进展中,Hori及其同事3(第484页)描述了一种技巧,该技巧使反质子氦的选定能级之间的跃迁能够以前所未有的精度进行测量。底线是,这些测量值与理论4结合使用时,除其他外,可以确定更准确的反质子与电子质量比值,以便将其与质子当量进行比较。

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    《Nature》 |2011年第7357期|p.459-460|共2页
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    MIKE CHARLTON;

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    Department of Physics, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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