Light used to capture anti-matter

[menergyam]

I am planning to do a proposal about capturing anti-matter and containing it by creating a trap with light. I figured I want to use light because if I use magnetic or electric fields then I would only be able to capture charged anti-particles. My goal is to capture anti-atoms by using a light trap because i know that light can exert a force upon a particle. I need to know if this works or if anyone here can give me any suggestions or comments. Thanks.

 

[CompuChip]

This is not my area of research (or particular interest, for that matter) so I cannot be of great help. But what you want to make sounds a lot like optical tweezers, so maybe searching for that will give you some inspiration.

 

[Redbelly98]

As of 2000, this group had plans to trap antihydrogen using a purely magnetic trap:
http://www.mpq.mpg.de/~haensch/antihydrogen/spectroscopy.html

Magnetic fields will exert a force on any atoms (or anti-atoms) that have a magnetic dipole moment.

Magneto-optical traps, or MOTs, have been used to trap atoms for perhaps the last 15 years. A google search produces many hits:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=magneto-optical+trap&aq=1&oq=magneto-opti