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The ASACUSA collaboration at CERN-AD has recently submitted a proposal to measure the hyperfine splitting of the ground state of antihydrogen in an atomic beam line. The spectrometer will consist of two sextupoles for spin selection and analysis, and a microwave cavity to flip the spin of the antihydrogen atoms. Numerical simulations show that such an experiment is feasible if -200 antihydrogen atoms per second can be produced in the ground state, and that an accuracy of better than 10-7 can be reached. This measurement will be a precise test of the CPT invariance.
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Juhász, B., Widmann, E. (2007). Proposed measurement of the ground-state hyperfine structure of antihydrogen. In: Dilling, J., Comyn, M., Thompson, J., Gwinner, G. (eds) TCP 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73466-6_14
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