Abstract
The storage and handling of atomic antimatter presents special problems because contact with the walls of any material container results in annihilation. Laser cooling, laser trapping and magnetic trapping techniques are therefore especially appealing. Here we review the basic principles of electromagnetic trapping and laser cooling for neutral atoms, and briefly describe a number of already-demonstrated laser and magnetic traps. We discuss limits on the temperatures achievable by laser cooling, as well as some special problems in the laser cooling of hydrogen/antihydrogen. In particular, we present some new results for the case of pulsed cooling.
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