The mechanisms of antihydrogen formationThis paper was presented at the International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems, held at University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada on 21–26 July 2008.
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Some years have passed since the report of the first production of cold antihydrogen by the Athena Collaboration and the Atrap Collaboration at CERN, but no clear answer has been given about the roles of the two mechanisms responsible for antihydrogen formation. A new preliminary analysis of the data acquired by the Athena Collaboration in different experimental conditions seems to suggest that three-body recombination mechanism is dominant in the first tens of seconds of the overlapping of the injected antiproton cloud with the positron plasma in the nested Penning trap, while radiative capture starts to become dominant afterwards.
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