The Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen
Lead Research Organisation:
Swansea University
Department Name: College of Science
Abstract
Understanding and explaining the origin and evolution of our Universe has been at the heart of scientific endeavour for centuries. Recent decades have seen spectacular advances, as particle physics and cosmology have combined to provide the beginnings of a coherent picture. Our Universe seems to have been born in a cataclysmic event called the Big Bang, and has continuously evolved over the 13-14 billion years since then. Though much of the visible Universe can be explained, there are still many very profound mysteries, and none more so than that posed by the existence of antimatter.Simply put, antimatter remains a mystery to Physics. Whilst the symmetry of the laws of nature, and in particular quantum mechanics, demands its existence, the Universe appears to be composed entirely of matter. Addressing this conundrum is one of the great challenges of basic science. As the hot Universe cooled shortly after the Big Bang it appears that all of the antimatter vanished, leaving a tiny excess of matter. At one part in a billion, this doesn't sound much, but the entire material Universe is created from it. The problem is we don't understand how this came to be. There are asymmetries in the behaviour of matter and antimatter, but they are too small by many orders of magnitude to account for the existence of the Universe. One way to address this problem, and the way we have chosen, is to study the antihydrogen atom - the building block of antimatter, and an atom that the Universe never got the chance to make. Recent years have seen great progress in our capabilities with low energy antiparticles (antiprotons and positrons). We can routinely collect many of them in vacuum and store them until we are ready to gently mix them to form antihydrogen under very controlled conditions.Although this capability has opened up great opportunities, there is still much work to be done before the properties of antihydrogen can be compared to those of hydrogen. In this project we will begin along this road by performing a series of experiments on antihydrogen atoms which we have manufactured and trapped in a special device. The apparatus has several parts, but the most important is a trap which can hold neutral species, such as antihydrogen. The trap is formed by magnetic fields from a complicated coil arrangement that forms a magnetic field minimum in the centre of the antihydrogen production region. Antihydrogen, like hydrogen, has a tiny magnetic moment - think of the orbiting positron as a minute current loop - which means that the energy levels shift in an applied magnetic field. Those atoms whose potential energy increases in the field will prefer to sit at the magnetic field minimum, and will be trapped.The depth of the trap is very shallow, just below the equivalent of one degree Kelvin, so we have to make our anti-atoms under very controlled conditions. Once they are trapped we will shine photons on them to interrogate their internal structure. First experiments are likely to be with microwaves, which will help us to compare with the famous 21 cm line of hydrogen. Eventually we will be able to shine laser light onto the antihydrogen.If any differences between the properties of hydrogen and antihydrogen are found, we will have discovered new physics, and perhaps come some way along the road to discovering what happened to antimatter in the early Universe.
Planned Impact
Direct academic beneficiaries have been covered elsewhere. Other beneficiaries include the stakeholders in the research and the students and staff who participate in the research. An important UK stakeholder is the EPSRC itself. Concerning publicity for the results of the antimatter research it has sponsored, in the past the interaction between investigators and the EPSRC has, by and large, been weak. Establishing more formal links between the investigators/University marketing groups might prove beneficial. Direct benefits accrue from the output of trained personnel. At postgraduate level, students are given a unique opportunity to interact with physicists from a range of sub-disciplines and to work for extended periods at CERN, the world's flagship physics laboratory. The strict scheduling and attention to detail required for the demanding antiproton shift work gives these students an edge to their repertoire of skills. They are also given the opportunity to develop leadership skills at an early stage of their career, as they are often entrusted with the charge of sub-tasks to be used by the collaboration. PDRA's are given a great opportunity to develop leadership skills. Significant sub-tasks are delegated to them, and they are given the chance to lead individual shifts and eventually to assume a temporary run coordinator position, where they are responsible for delivering the agreed scientific/technical milestones of the collaboration over a period of typically 1-2 weeks. Public interest in antimatter continues to be high. Given that grand societal aims are to raise the public awareness of what scientists do, and why, and to promote science to school children as offering a potentially exciting and fulfilling career, it would appear that our work can be of benefit here. Members of the Swansea and Liverpool teams are active in outreach in the UK. Talks on antimatter are frequently given to local scientific and astronomical societies as well as to organisations such as IoP Branches and University Physics Societies. Charlton has addressed groups of physics school teachers on several occasions and he is also on the Board of the Welsh Stimulating Physics initiative. Van der Werf is a STEM Ambassador connected with the Techniquest Science Discovery Centre, based in Cardiff. We will continue to develop these links. In particular, the Swansea-based Welsh Institute for Mathematical and Computational Sciences is the Welsh spoke in the new National HE STEM Programme, which is coordinated from Birmingham University. The roll-out of this Programme is just beginning such that there are great prospects for enhanced engagement and collaboration.
Publications
Bertsche W
(2011)
Antihydrogen formation by autoresonant excitation of antiproton plasmas
in Hyperfine Interactions
Butler E
(2011)
Trapped antihydrogen
in Hyperfine Interactions
Capra A
(2016)
Limit on the electric charge of antihydrogen
in Hyperfine Interactions
Charlton M
(2016)
Heating due to momentum transfer in low-energy positronium-antiproton scattering
in Physical Review A
Charlton M
(2015)
Advances in antihydrogen physics.
in Science progress
Charlton M
(2013)
Antihydrogen in a bottle
in Physics Education
Charlton M
(2011)
Antiparticle sources for antihydrogen production and trapping
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Charlton M
(2017)
Closing in on the properties of antihydrogen
in The European Physical Journal D
Charlton M
(2017)
Special issue on antihydrogen and positronium
in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Deller A
(2015)
Exciting positronium with a solid-state UV laser: the Doppler-broadened Lyman- a transition
in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Description | During the grant period: The Spectroscopy of Antihydrogen, progress towards the ultimate goal of testing CPT using the 1S-2S transition in antihydrogen, and measuring its acceleration in a gravitational field has been made. We have improved the trapping and trapping lifetime (put to 1000 s) of the antiatom and were able to make a resonant quantum transition: using microwaves to flip the spin of the positron so to change the antihydrogen atom from a trapped to an untrapped state. Moreover, we have been able to develop new technique to measure the gravitational mass of antihydrogen and obtain a first result. We also developed a lot of experimental techniques to manipulated and cool positron and antiprotons clouds. At Swansea we developed a theory explaining the effect of a rotating dipole field on a positron plasma and a technique to manipulate the magnetron orbit of a positron cloud in a Penning trap. Furthermore, we have been able to excite positronium from the 1S to 2P state, leading the way to Rydberg excitation, and possibly to colder antihydrogen production. |
Exploitation Route | Our findings have been essential to make progress in checking fundamental physics theories and both other antihydrogen collaboration and theoretical physicist have been very interested in our results so far. |
Sectors | Other |
URL | http://cern.ch/alpha |
Description | Our findings have been used by many scientists to justify theoretical and experimental work in number of areas of basic physics. Organisations such as CERN and our institutions have used our work to promote their respective missions, and in the public understanding of science. |
Sector | Other |
Impact Types | Cultural |
Description | CERN teachers programme for welsh teachers |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The welsh teachers programme at CERN, spear headed by Swansea in collaboration with Lynn Evans (former head of the LHC programme) highlighted the need to enthuse physics teachers in Wales. Funding for this programme and others has now been granted by the Welsh government under the NNEST umbrella. |
URL | http://gov.wales/newsroom/educationandskills/2017/welsh-teachers-return-from-cern-to-teach-what-matt... |
Description | Published Book " Trapped Charged Particles - A Graduate Textbook with Problems and Solutions" |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The book is used as reference material at the winter schools on "Physics with Trapped Charged Particles", the next of which will be hosted in january 2018 (the previous one was in 2015). These schools reach primarily European level post-graduates (Ph.D. students and young researchers), with a few intercontinental participants (US / Asia / Brazil). We have received good feedback on this. No further quantitative feedback available at this time. |
Description | Published Book "Trapped Charged Particles A Graduate Textbook with Problems and Solutions" |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | We have used the text book at our winterschools on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles in 2015 and 2018 and will use it again in 2021. The students have expressed much appreciation for the quality of the book - and I'm aware of at least one lecturer who is basing their lecture-course on the book. |
Description | Winterschool on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles 2012 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Every 3 years I organise a winterschool for PhD Students on the topic of trapped charged particles. The school hosts about 60 students, mostly from Europe, but with a scattering of people from north and south America as well as Asia. It is highly appreciated by everyone in the field and helps young researchers form a wide network in the field as well as of course learning about the field from internationally renowned researchers who join as speakers and tutors. We have done schools in January 2012,2015, 2018 and 2021. I've linked the most recent one below. |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/880180/overview |
Description | EPSRC Standard Grant (Responsive Mode) |
Amount | £3,824,192 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/P024734/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Frequency metrology for precision measurements on matter antimatter symmetry |
Amount | £1,515,048 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T01086X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 01/2025 |
Description | Probing the Rydberg levels of Positronium - Research Fellowship |
Amount | £41,138 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RF-2012-495 |
Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2012 |
End | 09/2014 |
Description | Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow |
Amount | £50,695 (GBP) |
Funding ID | SRF\R1\201066 |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 01/2022 |
Description | Towards Precision Experiments with Antihydrogen |
Amount | £2,233,562 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/P024734/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 02/2021 |
Title | SDR-EVC |
Description | We have successfully combined the known techniques of Strong Drive Rotating (SDR) wall and Evaporative Cooling (EVC) to develop a new technique that we have dubbed SDR-EVC. The technique allows tailoring non-neutral plasmas held in Penning traps on all their parameters except their temperature (i.e. you can tailor their number, density and size). The technique is particularly useful in connection with use of positrons, as it allows one to stabilize the number of particles for experiments with positrons, that are often accumulated in a fashion that cause some fluctuation in the number, density and size of what's accumulated. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This new tool has assisted in the development of new techniques for trapping antihydrogen that has allowed an order of magnitude increase in the rate at which we can trap antihydrogen. It has also been of great use for allowing us to accumulate antihydrogen a trap and thus reaching much larger numbers than hitherto possible. Finally the stability it engenders has made the experiments on antihydrogen more reliable and reproducible facilitating a number of recent breakthroughs in antihydrogen physics. |
Description | ALPHA |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | ALPHA Experiment |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We have provided 20 years of leadership to antihydrogen research. We have provided expertise in positrons and positron accumulation, trap physics, atomic physics, laser physics, laser-cooling, plasma physics, cryogenics and vacuum technologies. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners have provided funding and manpower and expertise in plasma physics, detector physics, analysis, laser physics, particles physics, atomic physics and physics simulation. |
Impact | Essentially all my outputs in the last 15 years are due to work with ALPHA. ALPHA is multi-disciplinary by nature, as we have to bring together very diverse fields of physics to do research on antihydrogen. The fields covered are accelerator physics, atomic physics, laser physics, detector physics, particle physics, plasma physics, fundamental physics as well as vacuum technology, detector technology, cryogenics and super-conducting magnet technology to mention the most prominent ones. |
Description | ALPHA Collaboration |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | ALPHA Experiment |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | As co-founders of the collaboration, we have provided funding and expertise in multiple areas of key importance to this experiment : Super conducting magnets, Lasers, Plasma physics, Trap physics, Antiproton physics, Antitrapping, Positrons, Positron accumulation, Cryogenics. |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners and expertise (in parenthesis) are come from Brazil (Lasers), Canada (Detectors/DAQ), Denmark (Lasers, Antihydrogen), UK (Detectors, Plasma physics plus the above), US (plasma physics, Simulation). The contributations are estimated based on 10 year running of the experiment with 30 academics contributing cash for running and maintenance and about 20 FTE's per year of running plus 3M of contributions of kit. |
Impact | This is an enormously successful collaboration having resulted in 4 Nature papers and a large volume of other papers as well as heavy representation in the media. It is physics-multidisciplinary in that the collaboration spans several normally separate areas of physics : cryogenics, plasma physics, atomic physics, particle physics, fundamental physics, laser physics, positron physics, and spectroscopy |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | CERN |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | Antimatter Lectures and Tours at CERN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | I give antimatter related lectures on a regular basis for school groups from Wales, UK, Denmark and Finland. Typically I entertain a about 300 pupils per year this way. The lectures are followed by guided visits to the experiments, in particular the ALPHA experiment where UK is a lead contributor. I have many repeat visits (same teacher, new students) - and both teachers and students give very enthusiastic feedback from these visits. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018 |
Description | Antimatter Matters exhibition at the Gravity Fields Festival in Grantham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Antimatter Matters Royal Society Exhibition was moved to the thirds gravity fields festival and participated in the activities in the Guildhall. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.gravityfields.co.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=17942&p=0 |
Description | Antimatter at CERN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Webinar on Antihydrogen in order to engage A-level student locked down due to Covid-19. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDzU89CB0w |
Description | Article in Advances Wales (Welsh Government) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I participated in an article in Advances Wales showcasing our antihydrogen research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://businesswales.gov.wales/sites/business-wales/files/documents/Advances%2079%20final.pdf |
Description | CERN Open Days 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our experiment played a key role in antimatter outreach for the CERN open days in September 2019 that has more than 70'000 visitors. We showed people around at the experiments and discussed the physics applied, the motivations and the outlook. We had many interesting discussions with the general public ranging from age 12 to 80. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://opendays.cern/ |
Description | CERN Open Weekend: 2 talks about Antimatter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A large number of question after the talks I don't know |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Christmas lecture in Aberystwyth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | I was invited to give a "fun and educational" Christmas lecture of a group of local schools (sixt form / A-levels) at Aberytswyth University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Guided Tours for High School Students, Visitors |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Guided tours are given to groups of 10's of students (6th-form and older), as well as the visiting public and professionals. Tours often spark discussions about fundamental physics and the nature of the universe. Professionals in, for example the IT industry, are always interested in seeing applications of their products. Public visitors are often surprised at the differences between "real" physics experiments and the portrayal in the media. Nothing specific, though school groups have followed-up with requests for informational slides. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 |
Description | Hosting schools at the Antimatter Factory (both for visits and presentations) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | We should around about 30 school classes per year with about 30 students in each in the experiment. Many of them also enjoy an introductory presentation about our experiments. The feedback is always very positive to the likes of "the antimatter visit was the best part", and the teachers report really positively about it. We therefore have a number of Schools who return annually or bi-annually and pre-emptively contact us to exactly get the "antimatter experience". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
Description | Lecture at E2PHI for French Highschool teachers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | I was invited to present our activites at a summer school for french high school teachers. About 200 teachers from all of France participate in this week-long school and I had incredibly positive feedback from them. Since the school 3 of the teachers have brought their classes to CERN specifically asking for a tour and introductory talk by myself. As mentioned above. This has caused an additional number of visits to our lab. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://e2phy.in2p3.fr/2013/ |
Description | Lectures at Aabenraa Gymnasium (Denmark) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | My presentation sparked many questions and was very well received. I expect several students to go further towards studying physics at university as a result of my presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Lectures at Lycée des Glières in Annemasse (France) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | My presentations sparked a lot of interest with the students and I had several stimulating discussion with the most interested students after the talk. Nothing specific. But I expect that the interest in physics has been heightened by my presentations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Manchester Science Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of the Manchester Science Festival the royal society invited us to present our Antimatter Matters exhibit. This was a great opportunity to reach further audiences with this activity that we had already tuned for schools and the general public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/science-exhibition-manchester/exhibits/ |
Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | We presented the stand "Antimatter Matters" at the Royal Society's Summer Science exhibition in London in 2016. This certainly was an eye-opener for all the very appreciative visitors. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2016/summer-science-exhibition/ |
Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition : Antimatter Matters |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In collaboration with about 10 other UK institutions members of the LHCb collaboration at CERN the UK ALPHA members (Swansea, Liverpool and Manchester) organised (Responsible organisers Prof. N. Madsen (Swansea), C. Lazzaroni (Birmingham), T. Shears (Liverpool) and C. Parkes (Manchester)) a stand/exhibit at the annual Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. This is a competition based invitees-only exhibition (i.e. you compete to get invited to exhibit) and it's very professional (in both presentation and organisation). A great number of schools visit the exhibit and also many members of the general public. A number of special events were also hosted,with MEP's as wells FRS. The RS and well as ourselves collected feedback from participants who greatly appreciated and reported increased interest in science thanks to our exhibit. We continue to tour the exhibit at various UK science events - so more events will be reported here. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/exhibits/antimatter-m... |
Description | Royal society summer exhibition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Exhibition about physics at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | School visits to Antimatter Factory with tours and presentaitons |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | We engage with school classes coming to CERN to visit the Antimatter Factory though presentations and tours of the facilities. This is a good opportunity for them to add some spice to their education and they often ask pertinent questions and express much appreciation for in particular the antimatter part of the programme. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020 |
URL | http://visit.cern/tours |
Description | Times Cheltenham Science Festival: Particle Physics: An Introduction" co-presented with Dr Tom Whyntie |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A number of questions after the talk were answered None |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2013/particle-physics-an-introduction/ |
Description | Welsh and UK teachers programmes @ CERN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In collaboration with CERN's teachers programmes I deliver presentations and discussions on the subjects of our research (Antimatter) to UK high school teachers. Each year there are currently three teachers programmes (one week each, with about 25 participants) of which one has been focussed on physics teachers in Welsh Schools (A and AS levels). These programmes help enthuse teachers to bring modern and contemporary physics into the class room as well as show them how they can bring their own students to CERN in an effort to highten their interest in STEM subjects. In collaboration with CERN we have received very very positive feedback on this. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019 |
URL | https://home.cern/students-educators/teacher-programmes |
Description | Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | In collaboration with Profs. Richard Thompson and Martina Knoop of Imperial College London and Aix-Marseille Universities respectively I have organised and chaired a winter school on physics with trapped charge particles in January 2012, 2015 and 2018. Each school is 10 days long with presentations and workshops by internationally recognized leaders in the field give to about 55 participants who are mainly Ph.D. students and some PDRAs. The school has been a great success each time and we will repeat it in January 2021. So far only limited external support has been received for this but we're organising it that L'ecole de Physique des Houches, which is a sort of charitable organisation for physics events. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2015,2018 |
URL | http://indico.cern.ch/event/315947/ |