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    The First Cold Antihydrogen

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    Antihydrogen, the atomic bound state of an antiproton and a positron, was produced at low energy for the first time by the ATHENA experiment, marking an important first step for precision studies of atomic antimatter. This paper describes the first production and some subsequent developments.Comment: Invitated Talk at COOL03, International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics, to be published in NIM
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