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The AEgIS experiment is presently almost completely installed at CERN. It is currently taking data with antiprotons, electrons and positrons. The apparatus is designed to form a cold, pulsed beam of antihydrogen to measure the Earth’s gravitational acceleration g on antimatter and to perform spectroscopy measurements. This paper describes the main features of the apparatus and shows a selected review of some achieved results.
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics (EXA 2014), Vienna, Austria, 15–19 September 2014.
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Testera, G., Aghion, S., Amsler, C. et al. The AEgIS experiment. Hyperfine Interact 233, 13–20 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-015-1165-5
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