Remote Antiproton Sources

Antiprotons are well on their way to becoming a standard laboratory commodity. Heavy utilization of LEAR is ushering in a new era where p's achieve their logical potential, equal to that of e-, e+, H-, as controlled probes and experimental building blocks. The uniqueness and usefulness of p's for studies at low (table top) energies is well documented. The main stumbling block to universal pursuit of such studies is the overhead of p production. The stablility of the p thus makes cogent an investigation of possibilities and limits to transporting p's in quantity. I will base my discussion on LEAR as the source of p's for bottling, since it is the only concrete example to work with at present. Two other lines of contemporary research then, largely in atomic physics, pioneered b Dehmelt and collaborators, aimed at precision studies o clouds of, or single e±, p±, or ions in larqe storage time traps. Second, there is work, experimental and theoretical, from the plasma physics tradition aimed at characterizing non neutral plasmas.