Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
First Precision Measurement of the Antiproton Magnetic Moment
Argonne Physics Division Colloquium - 19 Apr 2013
11:00 AM, Building 203 auditorium

For the first time a single trapped antiproton (p-bar) is used to measure the magnetic moment μp-bar . The moment is given in terms of the nuclear magneton (μN) by μp-barN = -2.792845 +- 0.000012. The 4.4 parts per million (ppm) uncertainty is 680 times smaller than previously realized. Comparing to the proton moment measured using the same method and trap electrodes gives μp-barp = -1.000000 ± 0.000005 to 5 ppm, consistent with the prediction of the CPT theorem.

On the way to further increases in precision, individual spin flips of a single trapped proton have been observed. The 96% fidelity and an efficiency expected to approach unity, suggest that it may be possible to use quantum jump spectroscopy to measure the proton and antiproton magnetic moments much more precisely.

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