Scintillator fabrication for the Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy (AEGIS)

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Abstract

The Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy (AEgIS), an experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) complex, aims to measure the effect of the earth's gravitational field on antihydrogen atoms. A key diagnostic tool for the experiment is the ability to detect antihydrogen and antiproton annihilations as they occur. The annihilations produce pions and photons, which AEgIS detects using a combination of scintillators and Photomultiplier Tubes (PMTs). We present the fabrication process of the scintillation detectors for the AEgIS experiment.

Authors

  • Alyssa Barlis

    Williams College

  • Joseph Samaniego-Evans

    Boston University