Institute of research into the fundamental laws of the Universe

 History and main events

9/12/2004:    The scientific comittee of Dapnia (Irfu) /SPP approves an R&D programme on methods leading to the production of antihydrogen  using  positronium.

15/04/2005:    French Patent N° 2 852 480

11/2005: demonstration of the extraction of more than 10¹⁰ electrons from a Penning trap in less than 75 ns. This test was performed at the Atomic Physics Laboratory of RIKEN (Wako, Japan).

03/2008: SOPHI hardware arrived at the lab.
05/2008: A nanoporous SiO₂ material converts 35% of incoming 2 keV e⁺ into o-Ps (with ETHZ, Orléans (CEMHTI), and Tsukuba-AIST).