Perspectives of laser-stimulated antihydrogen formation

The problem of possible controlling the antihydrogen formation and de-excitation has become an actual one for the investigation of efficient methodologies for the production of cold antihydrogen in the ground state. In 1983-1997 it was suggested and discussed by A. Wolf the possibility of laser-stimulated formation and stabilization of antihydrogen in collisions of antiprotons with positrons. In the present report we analyze the question with a wave-packet propagation method developed for the quantum two-body problem with a non-separable interaction. This computational technique can also be applied for analyzing the laser-assisted antihydrogen formation in magnetic traps.