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Stefan Ulmer at BASE Collaboration, CERN

Stefan Ulmer (born 1977 in Tübingen) is a particle physicist, professor of Physics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and chief scientist at the Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Tokyo. He is the founder and the spokesperson of the BASE experiment (AD-8) at the Antiproton Decelerator facility at CERN, Geneva. Stefan Ulmer is well known for his contributions to improving Penning trap techniques and precision measurements on antimatter. He is the first person to observe spin transitions with a single trapped proton as well as single spin transitions with a single trapped antiproton, a significant achievement towards a precision measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment.[1][2][3]

Stefan Ulmer completed his Ph.D. thesis from the Heidelberg University, Germany, under the supervision Wolfgang Quint and Klaus Blaum in 2011. Ulmer's studies focused on the first observation of spin flips with a single proton stored in a cryogenic Penning trap.[4][5] In 2012 he was promoted to a PI position at RIKEN, Japan, and in 2019 he became co-director of a MPG, RIKEN, PTB center for time, constants, and fundamental symmetries.

Research

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After his Ph.D. studies, Stefan Ulmer joined the ASACUSA CUSP experiment at CERN in 2012 as a postdoctorate fellow, and contributed to the production of the first polarized beam of antihydrogen atoms.[6][5] Simultaneously, he worked on setting up the BASE experiment. He invented a reservoir trap technique that allowed BASE to store antiprotons for about 400 days.[7]  In 2014, Stefan Ulmer’s team performed the most precise measurement of the proton-antiproton charge-to-mass ratio, evidently the most accurate test of CPT invariance of baryons.[1][3][8] In 2017, his team reported the first observation of single antiproton spin transitions,[9] and also completed the most precise measurements of antiproton magnetic moment.[10] From a time-base analysis of these data the most stringent limits on dark-matter / antimatter coupling were derived.[11] Inspired by this work, the BASE collaboration has used Penning trap detection systems as axion haloscopes, to set competitive limits on axion-to-photon conversion.[12] In 2022 Ulmer's team reported on a comparison of the proton/antiproton charge-to-mass ratio with a fractional accuracy of 16 parts in a trillion.[13] This measurement also constitutes the first differential test of the clock weak equivalence principle with antiprotons. Ulmer's measurements are considered to be outstanding and of great value for fundamental physics research.[1][3][14]

Awards and recognition

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Stefan Ulmer at the BASE experimental setup

Stefan Ulmer has received the following awards and recognition for his contributions to fundamental experimental physics.

  1. Falling Walls Award in the Physical Sciences 2022
  2. He was elected as chairperson and official representative of the antimatter physics community of CERN in 2018.[15]
  3. International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) young scientist award in fundamental metrology, 2014, for his work on the high-precision comparisons of the fundamental properties of the protons and the antiprotons.[14][16]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Symmetries, Max Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center for Time, Constants and Fundamental. "Max Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries - Group of Stefan Ulmer". www.mpi-hd.mpg.de. Retrieved 2021-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Ulmer, Dr Stefan. "Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory". ulmerfsl.riken.jp. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  3. ^ a b c ORCID. "Stefan Ulmer (0000-0002-4185-4147)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  4. ^ Ulmer, Stefan (2011). "First Observation of Spin Flips with a single Proton stored in a cryogenic Penning trap". archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. doi:10.11588/heidok.00012306. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  5. ^ a b Yamazaki, Yasunori; Ulmer, Stefan (2013). "CPT symmetry tests with cold and antihydrogen". Annalen der Physik. 525 (7): 493–504. doi:10.1002/andp.201300060. ISSN 1521-3889.
  6. ^ Kuroda, N.; Ulmer, S.; Murtagh, D. J.; Van Gorp, S.; Nagata, Y.; Diermaier, M.; Federmann, S.; Leali, M.; Malbrunot, C.; Mascagna, V.; Massiczek, O. (2015). "The ASACUSA CUSP: an antihydrogen experiment". Hyperfine Interactions. 235 (1–3): 13–20. Bibcode:2015HyInt.235...13K. doi:10.1007/s10751-015-1205-1. ISSN 0304-3843. S2CID 254548780.
  7. ^ Sellner, S; Besirli, M; Bohman, M; Borchert, M J; Harrington, J; Higuchi, T; Mooser, A; Nagahama, H; Schneider, G; Smorra, C; Tanaka, T; Blaum, K; Matsuda, Y; Ospelkaus, C; Quint, W (2017-08-31). "Improved limit on the directly measured antiproton lifetime". New Journal of Physics. 19 (8): 083023. Bibcode:2017NJPh...19h3023S. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aa7e73. ISSN 1367-2630. S2CID 125095370.
  8. ^ Ulmer, Dr Stefan. "Research Topics | Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory". ulmerfsl.riken.jp. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  9. ^ Smorra, C.; Mooser, A.; Besirli, M.; Bohman, M.; Borchert, M. J.; Harrington, J.; Higuchi, T.; Nagahama, H.; Schneider, G. L.; Sellner, S.; Tanaka, T.; Blaum, K.; Matsuda, Y.; Ospelkaus, C.; Quint, W. (2017-06-10). "Observation of individual spin quantum transitions of a single antiproton". Physics Letters B. 769: 1–6. arXiv:1703.07096. Bibcode:2017PhLB..769....1S. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.03.024. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 119043861.
  10. ^ Smorra, C.; Sellner, S.; Borchert, M. J.; Harrington, J. A.; Higuchi, T.; Nagahama, H.; Tanaka, T.; Mooser, A.; Schneider, G.; Bohman, M.; Blaum, K.; Matsuda, Y.; Ospelkaus, C.; Quint, W.; Walz, J. (October 2017). "A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment". Nature. 550 (7676): 371–374. Bibcode:2017Natur.550..371S. doi:10.1038/nature24048. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 29052625. S2CID 205260736.
  11. ^ Smorra, C.; Stadnik, Y. V.; Blessing, P. E.; Bohman, M.; Borchert, M. J.; Devlin, J. A.; Erlewein, S.; Harrington, J. A.; Higuchi, T.; Mooser, A.; Schneider, G.; Wiesinger, M.; Wursten, E.; Blaum, K.; Matsuda, Y. (November 2019). "Direct limits on the interaction of antiprotons with axion-like dark matter". Nature. 575 (7782): 310–314. arXiv:2006.00255. Bibcode:2019Natur.575..310S. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1727-9. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31723290. S2CID 207989920.
  12. ^ Devlin, Jack A.; Borchert, Matthias J.; Erlewein, Stefan; Fleck, Markus; Harrington, James A.; Latacz, Barbara; Warncke, Jan; Wursten, Elise; Bohman, Matthew A.; Mooser, Andreas H.; Smorra, Christian; Wiesinger, Markus; Will, Christian; Blaum, Klaus; Matsuda, Yasuyuki (2021-01-25). "Constraints on the Coupling between Axionlike Dark Matter and Photons Using an Antiproton Superconducting Tuned Detection Circuit in a Cryogenic Penning Trap". Physical Review Letters. 126 (4): 041301. arXiv:2101.11290. Bibcode:2021PhRvL.126d1301D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.041301. PMID 33576660. S2CID 231719186.
  13. ^ Borchert, M. J.; Devlin, J. A.; Erlewein, S. R.; Fleck, M.; Harrington, J. A.; Higuchi, T.; Latacz, B. M.; Voelksen, F.; Wursten, E. J.; Abbass, F.; Bohman, M. A.; Mooser, A. H.; Popper, D.; Wiesinger, M.; Will, C. (January 2022). "A 16-parts-per-trillion measurement of the antiproton-to-proton charge–mass ratio". Nature. 601 (7891): 53–57. Bibcode:2022Natur.601...53B. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04203-w. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 34987217. S2CID 245709321.
  14. ^ a b iupap (2021-03-05). "C2: Awards - IUPAP: The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics". Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  15. ^ "New chairs for the Antiproton Decelerator Users Community". CERN. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  16. ^ "FLAIR - News". Facility for Low-Energy Antiproton and Ion Research. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
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