Martin Simon
Martin Simon
- Senior Academy Scientist
- Precision experiments
- Exotic atoms
- +43 (1) 51581 - 4512
- Martin.Simon(at)oeaw.ac.at
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- 03 01 A B9 01 3B27
Research interests
My research operates at the precision frontier of experimental physics.
What draws me to this frontier is its unique interdisciplinary character, as well as the scale of its experiments.
Here the puzzles and techniques of atomic, nuclear, and particle physics overlap.
Experiments and collaborations are run by comparatively small groups of scientists.
This allows for the involvement in every step of a project's lifecycle from design, construction, and installation through development, measurements, and data taking to analysis, interpretation, and publication.
Within the ASACUSA-Cusp collaboration we form a beam of antihydrogen to test fundamental symmetries.
To do so advanced non-neutral plasma and atomic beam techniques are required as well as particle detections.
In the GRASIAN collaboration we will search for short-range forces by our work toward gravitational quantum states of light atoms.
Publications
- CPT and Lorentz symmetry tests with hydrogen using a novel in-beam hyperfine spectroscopy method applicable to antihydrogen experiments. / Nowak, L.; Malbrunot, C.; Simon, M. C. et al.
In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 858, 15.11.2024, p. ARTN 139012. - GRASIAN: Shaping and characterization of the cold hydrogen and deuterium beams for the forthcoming first demonstration of gravitational quantum states of atoms. / Killian, Carina; Blumer, Philipp; Crivelli, Paolo et al.
In: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 78, No. 10, 29.10.2024, p. 132. - A hydrogen beam to characterize the ASACUSA antihydrogen hyperfine spectrometer. / Malbrunot, C.; Diermaier, M.; Simon, M. C. et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 935, 11.08.2019, p. 110-120. - Characterization of a transmission positron/positronium converter for antihydrogen production. / Aghion, S.; Amsler, C.; Ariga, T. et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 407, 15.09.2017, p. 55-66. - Annihilation detector for an in-beam spectroscopy apparatus to measure the ground state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen. / Sauerzopf, C.; Capon, A.; Diermaier, M. et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, No. 845, 11.02.2017, p. 579-582.
- The scintillating bar detector of the ASACUSA experiment. / Mascagna, V.; Amsler, C.; Bayo, M. et al.
International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics and Conference on Low Energy Antiprotons. ed. / Claude Amsler; Paul Buehler; Daniel Murtagh; Eberhard Widmann. Vol. 480 SISSA, 2025. p. 77. - The development of the antihydrogen beam detector and the detection of the antihydrogen atoms for in-flight hyperfine spectroscopy. / Nagata, Y.; Sauerzopf, C.; Capon, A. et al.
XXIX International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC2015). 2015.