Dr April Cridland

Post Doctoral Research Assistant

Physics

+44 (0) 1792 205678 ext 1277

a.l.cridland@swansea.ac.uk

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-0266

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About

Dr April Cridland has been a member of the Physics Department at Swansea University since 2018. Her research interests include Penning trap design, antimatter research and cryogenic electronics.

She is a member of the ALPHA Collaboration and is based at CERN, Geneva.

Areas Of Expertise

Trapped charged particles
Antimatter
Penning Traps
Cryogenic Electronics

Career Highlights

Collaborations

ALPHA Collaboration

Publications

Research Highlights

Lacy, J., Cridland, A., Pinder, J., Uribe, A., Willetts, R., & Verdu, J. (2020). Superconducting Flux Pump for a Planar Magnetic Field Source. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 30(8), 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2020.3004768, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55519
Cridland, A., Lacy, J., Pinder, J., & Verdú, J. (2016). Single Microwave Photon Detection with a Trapped Electron. Photonics, 3(4), 59
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics3040059, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55520
Cridland, A. (2018). Development of a planar Penning trap for quantum applications with electrons
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55521
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/80554/
Pinder, J., Lacy, J., Willetts, R., Cridland, A., Uribe, A., & Verdú, J. (2020). Planar, strong magnetic field source for a chip ion trap. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(10), 103201
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024735, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55522
Cridland, A., Lacy, J., Pinder, J., Uribe, A., Willetts, R., Alvarez, R., & Verdú, J. (2020). Coherent coupling of a trapped electron to a distant superconducting microwave cavity. Applied Physics Letters, 117(15), 154001
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0023002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55523

All Research

Journal Articles

Baker, C., Bertsche, W., Capra, A., Cesar, C., Charlton, M., Christensen, A., Collister, R., Cridland, A., Eriksson, S., Evans, A., Evetts, N., Fajans, J., Friesen, T., Fujiwara, M., Gill, D., Grandemange, P., Granum, P., Hangst, J., Hayden, M...., & Collaboration), . (2024). Measurements of Penning-Malmberg trap patch potentials and associated performance degradation. Physical Review Research, 6(1)
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.6.l012008, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65508
Anderson, E., Baker, C., Bertsche, W., Bhatt, N., Bonomi, G., Capra, A., Carli, I., Cesar, C., Charlton, M., Christensen, A., Collister, R., Cridland, A., Quiceno, D., Eriksson, S., Evans, A., Evetts, N., Fabbri, S., Fajans, J., Ferwerda, A...., & Wurtele, J. (2023). Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter. Nature, 621(7980), 716-722.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06527-1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06527-1
Lacy, J., Cridland, A., Pinder, J., Uribe, A., Willetts, R., & Verdu, J. (2022). Flux Pumping of Multiple Double-Loop Superconducting Structures for a Planar Magnetic Field Source. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 32(7), 1-11.
https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2022.3178359, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60318
Baker, C., Bertsche, W., Capra, A., Cesar, C., Charlton, M., Cridland, A., Eriksson, S., Evans, A., Evetts, N., Fabbri, S., Fajans, J., Friesen, T., Fujiwara, M., Grandemange, P., Granum, P., Hangst, J., Hayden, M., Hodgkinson, D., Isaac, A...., & Wurtele, J. (2021). Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production. Nature Communications, 12(1)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26086-1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58657
Baker, C., Bertsche, W., Capra, A., Carruth, C., Cesar, C., Charlton, M., Christensen, A., Collister, R., Cridland, A., Eriksson, S., Evans, A., Evetts, N., Fajans, J., Friesen, T., Fujiwara, M., Gill, D., Grandemange, P., Granum, P., Hangst, J...., & Charlton, M. (2021). Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms. Nature, 592(7852), 35-42.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03289-6, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56625
Lacy, J., Cridland, A., Pinder, J., Uribe, A., Willetts, R., & Verdu, J. (2020). Superconducting Flux Pump for a Planar Magnetic Field Source. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 30(8), 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2020.3004768, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55519
Pinder, J., Lacy, J., Willetts, R., Cridland, A., Uribe, A., & Verdú, J. (2020). Planar, strong magnetic field source for a chip ion trap. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(10), 103201
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024735, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55522
Cridland, A., Lacy, J., Pinder, J., Uribe, A., Willetts, R., Alvarez, R., & Verdú, J. (2020). Coherent coupling of a trapped electron to a distant superconducting microwave cavity. Applied Physics Letters, 117(15), 154001
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0023002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55523
Cridland, A., Lacy, J., Pinder, J., & Verdú, J. (2016). Single Microwave Photon Detection with a Trapped Electron. Photonics, 3(4), 59
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics3040059, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55520

Other Research Outputs

Cridland, A. (2018). Development of a planar Penning trap for quantum applications with electrons
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55521
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/80554/