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Preparing antihydrogen at
rest for the free fall in
Laurent HilicoJean-Philippe KarrAlbane DouilletVu TranJulien Trapateau
Ferdinand Schmidt KalerJochen WalzSebastian Wolf
WAG 13-15 November 2013 Bern
2014 – 2017Bescool project
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Outline
• H+ motion control requirements
• Capture and cooling challenges
• Experimental progress
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GBAR overview
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Last GBAR steps
Reaction chamber
H+ Capture and cooling
by laser cooled Be+ ions
Threshold Photodetachment
=1.7 µmH at rest
g
H initial velocity v0 < 0.8 m/sH+
3 neV, 20 µK
Accurate measurment of g < 1 %
H
e+
H+
30 cm 1 .. 6 keVTemperature 60 .. 300 eV
Recoil 0.23 m/s
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H with v0 < 1 m/s ?
2i
aamp
Ground state quantum harmonic oscillator
mv
2
m = 1.67 10-27 kg , v0 < 0.8 m/s < 3 MHz
Cooling challengesReaction chamber
Kinetic energy 1 .. 6 keVTemperature 60 .. 300 eV 700 000 K
Trapped particuleTemperature 3 neV 20 µK
Capture + CoolingCold trapped H+
Classical world Frontiers of Quantum world
÷ 1010..11
NIST D. WinelandInnsbruck R. Blatt
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> 10 000 laser cooled Be+ ions100 neV, T ~ mK
few mm
300 eV, T = 240 000 K
H+
First step
Two Cooling Steps
T÷ 3 109
Capture and sympathetic Doppler cooling by laser cooled Be+ ions
313 nm laser
in the linear capture trap (Paul trap, r0 = 3.5 mm, = 13 MHz)
Second step
Transfer and ground state cooling of a Be+/H+ ion pair in the precision trap
F. Schmidt Kaler, S. Wolf , Mainz
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Capture efficiency
300 ns bunch
0
25
50
75
100
0 0,5 1 1,5t block (µs)
ion
nu
mb
er
(%)
0
25
50
75
100
0 25 50 75 100
First stepBe+ laser cooled ions
1 keV H+ ions
1000… 0 VInput end-caps
Output end-caps
timeUbiais=980 V
H+ intake
0 V
Versus intake delay Versus initial temperature (eV)
eV
Biased linear RF Paul trap
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Sympathetic cooling time First step
Ec= 2 meV313 nm laser
vt = 0 s
t = 8 ms
• Numerical simulation 500 Be+ and 20 H+
• Hotter H+ ions and larger ion clouds numerical challenge
Work plan : Experimental tests with matter ions H2
+ or H+
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Precision trap – motional couplings
z
x,y
Be+H+
Two coupled oscillators in an external potential
T. Hasegawa, Phys. Rev. A 83, 053407 (2011)J. B. Wübbena, S. Amairi, O. Mandel, P.O. Schmidt, Phys. Rev. A 85, 043412 (2012)
1D3D
normal modes
)cos(/
)sin(/
)(
)cos()sin()(
12
1
12
22
211
outoutout
ininin
outoutoutininin
tmm
zbt
mm
zbtq
tzbtzbtq
in phase modeout of phase mode
individual ion modesx, y, z
122
21 bb
• z trapping DC potentials• x,y trapping RF effective potentials• Coulomb interaction coupling
Newton equations equilibrium positions small oscillations
Second step
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mlc/msc
b12
z motionx,y motion
3,1.2,5.1~
,1
,1 z
x
Precision trap – motional couplings Second step
mLC/mSC 1 b1 = 50 % b2 = 50 %
mLC/mSC = 9/1 b1 = 99.996 % b2 = 0.872 %
Efficient sympathetic cooling
?
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Doppler cooling in precision trap
>> 20 µK
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Raman side band cooling
313.13 nm
2S1/2
2P1/2
2P3/2 F=0, 1, 2, 3
F=1, 2
Stimulated Raman transition
Spontaneous Raman transitions
n=3
n=2
n=2
hfs- i
3 laser freq.2 beams
hfs= 1.25 GHz
~ tens of GHz
Be+H+
vibr
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Raman side band cooling
Stimulated Raman transition no spontaneous emission coherent process
n=3
n=2
n=2
)(sin)23( 2,32 tnnP Population transfert probability
nen aainn
)(21,' '
ukk
.21 Lamb Dicke parameter
For n → n-1, 22121
1, bnnnn
pulse duration 221
11
2 bn
Single ion b1 = 1 3 modes ~ 100 µs /n/mode
Be+/H+ b1z = 0.18 2 modes x 5
b1x,y = 0.0872 4 modes x 15
~ 10 ms
< 1s
Rabi oscillation
Second step
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Experimental progress
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RF
DC O V DC
Hot H+
313 nm cooling laserQuadrupole guide
RF 250 V at 13.3 MHz, r0 = 3.5 mmDC’s 2 .. 10 V
Capture trap design Jean-Philippe Karr
12 mm
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Design: Sebastian Wolf, MainzTransfer to precision trap
= 313 nm
= 1.64 µm
Cooling
Photodetachment
Mainz implantation trap
Capture trap
~2 mm
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Vacuum vesselH+
Capture trapPrecision trap
with cryopumping
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Evaluate sympathetic cooling timesnumerically & experimentally
Work plan11/2013
Achieve the design
12/2013
Setup the cooling lasers
Capture trap implementation
03/2014
Test with H2+ and H+ matter ions
from the REMPI source
12/2014
2013
2014
201506/2015
Test with Be+ and Ca+ ionsPrecision trap implementation
Transfer of precision trap to Paris,
12/2015
201603/2016 12/2016
Be+ and H2+ transfered in precision trap
Be+/H2+ ground state cooling
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Tests with a H2+ / H+ REMPI source
P=10-6 mbIon creation
P=10-8 mbIon optics
P=10-10 mbInjection into the quadrupole guide
H2
303 nm pulsed laser3-4 mJ
H2+ ions
Ec = 50 eVE ~ 10 meV
H2+ ions
Ec = 0 eVE ~ 200 meV
Synergies H+ GbarH2
+ metrology projectHCI highly charged ions 40Ar13+, P. Indelicato, C. Szabo
100 %
efficiency
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Conclusion
Capture of > 10 eV H+ and Doppler cooling in a linear Paul trap
Transfer to precision trap
Doppler and ground state cooling in precision trap OK
OK
• ANR BESCOOL• ITN ComiQ
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Can we improve the motional couplings ?Idea
Efficient coupling
Coulomb coupling
Coul 21
3120
2
4
2
eqCoul z
q
m
Trapped ions 1 ~ 2 ~ 1.0 MHz Coul ~ 100 kHz
z12eq < 40 µm z12eq
with m1 = 9, m2 =1
Double well structure with very small electrodes
12
coul
Single well z 2 ~ 3 z1 poor couplings
Possible solution
x 2 ~ 9 x1
?