ELENA

The Extra Low Energy Antiproton ring (ELENA) will further slow antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator, to make them easier to trap.

25 results

Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties

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Experiments
02 August, 2024

Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)

Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user

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Accelerators
12 October, 2023
Accelerators
News
12 October, 2023

GBAR joins the anticlub

The GBAR experiment at CERN has just joined the very select club of experiments that have succeeded in synthesising antihydrogen atoms

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Physics
14 July, 2023
Physics
News
14 July, 2023

Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC

On Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season finally commenced

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Accelerators
05 July, 2023

Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance

The AD operations team received on Friday, 1 June – 12 days earlier than rescheduled – the green light from the AD injection kicker expert: beam could be injected again in the AD ring

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Accelerators
06 June, 2023

Accelerator Report: mostly on schedule, sometimes not…

The beam commissioning of the Antiproton Decelerator will start on 12 June, and the aim is to deliver antiprotons to the eagerly waiting AD-ELENA experiments on 30 June

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Accelerators
10 May, 2023

LS2 Report: waiting for antiprotons...

In the AD hall, a beam of H- ions has reached the GBAR and ALPHA experiments, marking the end of the installation of new transfer lines from the ELENA deceleration ring

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Accelerators
28 October, 2020
Accelerators
News
28 October, 2020

LS2 Report: Rejuvenation for the Antiproton Decelerator

The Antiproton Decelerator will see refurbishment work that will help its experiments to trap more antimatter than before

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Accelerators
12 March, 2019

Exceptionally slow antiprotons

The commissioning of ELENA continued in 2018, culminating in the production of the first very-low-energy antiproton beams

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Accelerators
07 March, 2019
Accelerators
News
07 March, 2019

ELENA decelerator

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Physics
Physics
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The PUMA project: Antimatter goes nomad

A new European project linking ELENA and ISOLDE plans to trap antimatter in order to explore quantum phenomena in radioactive nuclei

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Physics
11 March, 2018
Physics
News
11 March, 2018