Proton and antiproton magnetic moments compared at 10^-12 · revision history
Revision 2
Accepted · core change · record
Changes against revision 1:
- Title · changed
- Revision 1: Proton and antiproton magnetic moments compared at 1e-12
- Revision 2: Proton and antiproton magnetic moments compared at $10^{-12}$
- Plain
- A single proton or antiproton held in an electromagnetic trap can have its magnetism measured by flipping its spin. Matter-antimatter symmetry requires the two magnetic moments to be equal and opposite.
- Precise · changed · core
- Revision 1: BASE compared proton and antiproton charge-to-mass ratios to 16 ppt (2022) and magnetic moments to about 1.5 ppb (2017). Determine whether $\left|\mu_{\mathrm{pbar}}\right|/\mu_{\mathrm{p}} - 1$ is nonzero at the 1e-12 level, using sympathetic or quantum-logic cooling for faster single-spin-flip detection.
- Revision 2: BASE compared proton and antiproton charge-to-mass ratios to 16 ppt (2022) and magnetic moments to about 1.5 ppb (2017). Determine whether $\left|\mu_{\mathrm{pbar}}\right|/\mu_{\mathrm{p}} - 1$ is nonzero at the $10^{-12}$ level, using sympathetic or quantum-logic cooling for faster single-spin-flip detection.
- Settled by
- Penning-trap measurements of the proton and antiproton g-factors each at sub-ppt uncertainty.
- Kind
- well-posed
- Answer type
- yes-no
- References
- (empty)
- Literature status
- open
- Status note
- (empty)
- Posed since
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Decisions
- Accept · 2026-10-15 · record