Measuring gbar with AEgIS, progress and perspectives

AEgIS experiment’s main goal is to measure the local gravitational acceleration of antihydrogen¯g and thus perform a direct test of the weak equivalence principle with antimatter. In the first phase of the experiment the aim is to measure ¯g with 1% relative precision. This paper presents the antihydrogen production method and a description of some components of the experiment, which are necessary for the gravity measurement. Current status of the AE¯gIS experimental apparatus is presented and recent commissioning results with antiprotons are outlined. In conclusion we discuss the short-term goals of the AE¯gIS collaboration that will pave the way for the first gravity measurement in the near future.