dorsal/arxiv
View SchemaTesting Gravity with Muonium
| Authors | K. Kirch |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0702143 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702143 |
Abstract
Recently a new technique for the production of muon ($\mu^+$) and muonium ($\mu^+e^-$) beams of unprecedented brightness has been proposed. As one consequence and using a highly stable Mach-Zehnder type interferometer, a measurement of the gravitational acceleration $\bar{g}$ of muonium atoms at the few percent level of precision appears feasible within 100 days of running time. The inertial mass of muonium is dominated by the mass of the positively charged - antimatter - muon. The measurement of $\bar{g}$ would be the first test of the gravitational interaction of antimatter, of a purely leptonic system, and of particles of the second generation.
{
"annotation_id": "830a3fe8-d201-4486-934b-b43a8e3a9a94",
"date_created": "2026-03-02T18:01:17.310000Z",
"date_modified": "2026-03-02T18:01:17.310000Z",
"file_hash": "253ca62a4a5195362da2d79e9896d7d606160d220f668280890339050267a7c4",
"private": false,
"record": {
"abstract": "Recently a new technique for the production of muon ($\\mu^+$) and muonium\n($\\mu^+e^-$) beams of unprecedented brightness has been proposed. As one\nconsequence and using a highly stable Mach-Zehnder type interferometer, a\nmeasurement of the gravitational acceleration $\\bar{g}$ of muonium atoms at the\nfew percent level of precision appears feasible within 100 days of running\ntime. The inertial mass of muonium is dominated by the mass of the positively\ncharged - antimatter - muon. The measurement of $\\bar{g}$ would be the first\ntest of the gravitational interaction of antimatter, of a purely leptonic\nsystem, and of particles of the second generation.",
"arxiv_id": "physics/0702143",
"authors": [
"K. Kirch"
],
"categories": [
"physics.atom-ph",
"gr-qc",
"physics.gen-ph"
],
"title": "Testing Gravity with Muonium",
"url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702143"
},
"schema_id": "dorsal/arxiv",
"source": {
"execution_id": "0ed2d2ed-3f19-498e-b6ff-af234c38ed98",
"id": "arXiv Dataset IDs",
"type": "Model",
"variant": "snapshot-2026-03-01",
"version": "0.1.0"
},
"user_id": 1000002
}