New Experiments with Antiprotons

TL;DR

This paper discusses Fermilab's antiproton source and proposes experiments to study charm mixing, hyperons, exotic states, antihydrogen CPT violation, and antimatter gravity using antiprotons.

Contribution

It introduces new experimental possibilities leveraging Fermilab's antiproton source for fundamental physics tests involving antimatter.

Findings

Potential to produce intense tagged D^0 mesons

Plans for antihydrogen CPT violation searches

Proposals for measuring antimatter gravity

Abstract

Fermilab operates the world's most intense antiproton source. Newly proposed experiments can use those antiprotons either parasitically during Tevatron Collider running or after the Tevatron Collider finishes in about 2011. For example, the annihilation of 8 GeV antiprotons might make the world's most intense source of tagged D^0 mesons, and thus the best near-term opportunity to study charm mixing and, via CP violation, to search for new physics. Other potential measurements include sensitive studies of hyperons and of the mysterious X, Y, and Z states. Production of antihydrogen in flight can be used for first searches for antihydrogen CPT violation. With antiproton deceleration to low energy, an experiment using a Penning trap and an atom interferometer could make the world's first measurement of the gravitational force on antimatter.