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Antihydrogen and fundamental symmetries

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The prospects for testing CPT invariance and the weak equivalence principle (WEP) for antimatter with spectroscopic measurements on antihydrogen are discussed. The potential precisions of these tests are compared with those from other measurements.

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“If there is negative electricity, why not negative gold, as yellow...as our own, with the same boiling point and identical spectrallines...”

A. Schuster [1], 1898

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Hughes, R.J. Antihydrogen and fundamental symmetries. Hyperfine Interact 76, 1–16 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02316702

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