The goal of the AEg ̄IS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN, is to measure directly the Earth’s gravitational acceleration on antimatter by measuring the free fall of a pulsed, cold antihydrogen beam. The final position of the falling antihydrogen will be detected by a position sensitive detector. This detector will consist of an active silicon part, where the annihilations take place, followed by an emulsion part. Together, they allow to achieve 1% precision on the measurement of g ̄ with about 600 reconstructed and time tagged annihilations. We present here the prospects for the development of the AEg ̄IS silicon position sentive de- tector and the results from the first beam tests on a monolithic silicon pixel sensor, along with a comparison to Monte Carlo simulations.

Detection of low energy antiproton annihilations in a segmented silicon detector

CACCIA, MASSIMO;
2014-01-01

Abstract

The goal of the AEg ̄IS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN, is to measure directly the Earth’s gravitational acceleration on antimatter by measuring the free fall of a pulsed, cold antihydrogen beam. The final position of the falling antihydrogen will be detected by a position sensitive detector. This detector will consist of an active silicon part, where the annihilations take place, followed by an emulsion part. Together, they allow to achieve 1% precision on the measurement of g ̄ with about 600 reconstructed and time tagged annihilations. We present here the prospects for the development of the AEg ̄IS silicon position sentive de- tector and the results from the first beam tests on a monolithic silicon pixel sensor, along with a comparison to Monte Carlo simulations.
2014
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/9/06/P06020
Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc); Solid state detectors
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