ELENA ring

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The ELENA ring is a low-energy storage and deceleration ring at CERN designed to further slow antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator for precision antimatter experiments.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf decelerator ring
particle accelerator
scientific facility
storage ring
acronymFor Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring
allows simultaneous supply of antiprotons to multiple experiments
beamEnergyInput ~5.3 MeV
beamEnergyOutput ~100 keV
circumference about 30 m
connectedTo AEgIS experiment
ALPHA experiment
ATRAP experiment
BASE experiment
GBAR experiment
constructionStart 2011
country Switzerland
designedFor antihydrogen production experiments
antiprotonic atom experiments
precision antimatter experiments
tests of fundamental symmetries
feedsFrom Antiproton Decelerator
field antimatter research
particle physics
firstBeamCirculation 2016
hasComponent electron cooler
extraction lines
injection line from Antiproton Decelerator
magnetic lattice
radio-frequency system
improves antiproton trapping efficiency
beam quality for low-energy experiments
locatedIn CERN
Geneva
Switzerland
namedAfter Extra Low ENergy Antiproton ring
operator CERN
particleType antiproton
partOf CERN accelerator complex
purpose deceleration of antiprotons
low-energy antiproton storage
supply of antiprotons for antimatter experiments
shape hexagonal ring
startOfOperationForExperiments around 2017
status operational
technology electromagnets
ultra-high vacuum system


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