From antimatter to beauty quarks: experiments at the CERN Accelerator Complex
Since its completion in 2008, the LHC marked the last stage in a series of particle accelerators known as CERN Accelerator Complex. Though the Large Hadron Collider itself manipulates hadrons, protons...
View ArticleAntimatter atom is measured for the first time
Scientists have taken the first-ever measurement of an atom made of antimatter. This measurement, though not very precise, represents a first step toward being able to study antimatter atoms in detail...
View ArticleAntimatter Atom Measured for the First Time
Scientists have taken the first-ever measurement of an atom made of antimatter. This measurement, though not very precise, represents a first step toward being able to study antimatter atoms in detail...
View ArticleResearchers trap antihydrogen for insight into our matter-dominated universe
How different are matter and antimatter? This is a question that gets at the heart of modern particle physics and early-universe cosmology. The objects of everyday experience are made of ordinary...
View ArticleNew antimatter method to provide 'a major experimental advantage'
The new method, developed by a group of researchers from the USA and Canada, could potentially cool trapped antihydrogen atoms to temperatures 25 times colder than already achieved, making them much...
View ArticleAntihydrogen undergoes its first-ever measurement
The antimatter version of the hydrogen atom - antihydrogen - could soon finally give up its secrets. Scientists expect that antihydrogen will have exactly the same properties as hydrogen; but after 80...
View ArticleMatter of mystery: Antimatter beam could help solve physics puzzle
By Tia GhosePublished January 22, 2014LiveScience Equipment in the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN.N. Kuroda A new experiment at a Swiss physics laboratory has, for the first time, successfully produced...
View ArticleCern scientists create antihydrogen atoms
LONDON: Cern physicists have succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms, an advance that brings scientists closer to solving the antimatter mystery. Physicists from Cern's...
View ArticleCERN experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen atoms for hyperfine study...
(Source: CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) Geneva, 21 January 2014. The ASACUSA1 experiment at CERN2 has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms. In a...
View ArticlePutting physics to the test
Baltimore - European scientists say they have created enough antihydrogen - a type of the mirror-image, antimatter stuff that fictionally powers spaceships on Star Trek - to test a widely held basic...
View ArticleAntimatter atoms trapped for 16 minutes
Beginning of Story Content Antimatter atoms have been held captive and kept in existence for a whopping 16 minutes by a Canadian-led team — far longer than the researchers thought possible. "It was...
View ArticleAntimatter breakthrough could help scientists unravel Big Bang mystery
In a feat akin to capturing lightning in a bottle, physicists have created and for the first time briefly captured antihydrogen, the antimatter counterpart to the simple hydrogen atom. View gallery:...
View ArticleBig Bang II: Antimatter is now more sci than fi
[ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 12:51:33 AM ] NEW YORK: Physicists working in Europe announced on Wednesday that they had passed through natures looking glass and had created atoms made of antimatter,...
View ArticleCern phenomenon intrigues physicists
The quest to create stable antimatter - the holy grail of physics - may be a step closer, thanks to recent experiments at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (Cern) in Geneva. Researchers have...
View ArticleAntimatter Breakthrough: Big Batch Created in Lab
Battery Terminals Like poles on a battery, a normal electron has a negative charge, while a proton is positively charged. In antimatter, however, the charges are reversed. The electron's antimatter...
View ArticlePurdue physicist part of international antimatter experiment (Purdue University)
(Source: Purdue University) June 23, 2014 Purdue physicist part of international antimatter experiment WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University physicist is part of the international team of...
View ArticlePhysicists manufacture antimatter at 'warp speed'
Washington --- Scientists announced Wednesday a major breakthrough in their long struggle to understand the weirdest stuff in the universe --- antimatter, the mirror image of ordinary matter. A team of...
View ArticleScientists trap antimatter long enough to study how it works
At the Cern particle laboratory, physicists have managed to hold on to antimatter for up to 16 minutes to observe its behaviour Scientists at the Cern laboratory in Geneva have found a way to 'trap'...
View ArticlePhysicists venture into a mirror world
NEW YORK Physicists working in Europe have announced that they have passed through nature's looking glass and created atoms made of antimatter, or anti-atoms, opening up the possibility of experiments...
View ArticleFirst: Antimatter captured at CERN
This is one of the most important scientific events in your life. Limitless clean energy without radioactive waste, coal, or oil is possible from this development. Physicists working at the European...
View ArticleCloud of anti-atoms created
Researchers at CERN in Geneva say they have made at least 50,000 atoms of cold antihydrogen, beating a rival group to the feat. The annilihation of an antiproton with a proton (yellow) and a positron...
View ArticleAntimatter atoms ready for their close-up
--> Figure 1: A drawing of the central section of the ALPHA trap for antiprotons. Credit: 2011 Yasunori Yamazaki Two international teams of physicists, including RIKEN researchers (Japan), have...
View ArticleScientists close in on antimatter: study
This picture obtained from The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (... Graphic illustrating the Large Hadron Collider. Scientists said Sunday they... A European Organization for Nuclear...
View ArticleScientists close in on antimatter - study
SCIENTISTS said today they had trapped and stored antihydrogen atoms for a record 16 minutes, a stunning technical feat that promises deeper insights into the mysteries of antimatter. Particles and...
View ArticleScientist Concedes Antihydrogen Claim
GENEVA -- A skeptical scientist at Europe's leading particle physics center reversed course Thursday, conceding his rivals had successfully created elusive and long-sought atoms of antihydrogen. "I...
View ArticleScientists study mirror world of antimatter
Scientists searching for answers to some of science's most basic questions are planning to build atoms of antimatter and then "cage" them for use in experiments. The researchers at the European...
View ArticleScientists brew new antimatter batch - Oct. 30, 2002
Antimatter particles could help explain the Big Bang Story Tools RELATED More information from CERN GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- European physicists said they have produced atoms of antimatter and for...
View ArticleCERN’s ALPHA experiment measures charge of antihydrogen (CERN - European...
(Source: CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research) Geneva, 3 June 2014. In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications today, the ALPHA experiment at CERN1's Antiproton Decelerator...
View ArticleScientists Claim Creation of Large Quantity of Antihydrogen
European scientists say they have created enough antihydrogen -- a type of the mirror-image, antimatter stuff that fictionally powers spaceships on Star Trek -- to test a widely held basic model of the...
View ArticleScientists Create Antihydrogen
European scientists say they have created enough antihydrogen a type of the mirror-image, antimatter stuff that fictionally powers spaceships on Star Trek to test a widely held basic model of the...
View ArticleCERN traps antimatter for long enough to do serious science on it
Earlier this year, a research collaboration at CERN announced that it had created a few dozen atoms of antihydrogen, the antimatter equivalent of the more familiar hydrogen atoms. These anti-atoms were...
View ArticleScientists Create 'Star Trek' Antihydrogen in Quantity
Scientists Create 'Star Trek' Antihydrogen in Quantity European scientists say they have created enough antihydrogen -- a type of the mirror-image, antimatter stuff that fictionally powers spaceships...
View ArticleScientists to capture atoms of antimatter
August 11, 2000 Web posted at: 3:32 AM HKT (1932 GMT) (AP) -- European scientists searching for answers to some of science's most basic questions announced plans Thursday to build atoms of antimatter...
View ArticleAntihydrogen trapped at long last
Editorial: Why antimatter matters ATOMS made of antimatter have been trapped for the first time, a feat that will allow us to test whether antimatter responds to the fundamental forces in the same way...
View ArticleSimple matter, complex antimatter, and added strangeness
Having reported on ways to store and use large amounts of simple antimatter—positrons—we'll now turn our attention to more complex forms of antimatter. While creating positrons is a fairly...
View ArticleScientists Build Atoms of Antimatter
GENEVA (AP) European scientists searching for answers to some of science's most basic questions announced plans Thursday to build atoms of antimatter and then ``cage'' them for use in experiments....
View ArticleCERN snags 38 antihydrogen atoms in magnetic trap
Researchers at CERN have created and trapped antihydrogen in an attempt to study the underpinnings of the standard model of physics. Antihydrogen is made of antiparticles, specifically an antiproton...
View ArticleAntihydrogen trapped for first time
--> An octupole magnet was critical to trapping antihydrogen atoms by using their small magnetic moments. This simplified version shows how the north and south poles of strategically arranged...
View ArticleResearchers trap antihydrogen atoms
Researchers at CERN have created and trapped antihydrogen in an attempt to study the underpinnings of the standard model of physics. Antihydrogen is made of antiparticles, specifically an antiproton...
View ArticleNew technique for antihydrogen synthesis promises answers to mysteries of...
--> Conceptual experimental setup for ground-state hyperfine transition measurements of antihydrogen atoms with the cusp trap. (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research...
View ArticleAnti-matter atoms experiments planned
GENEVA: European scientists searching for answers to some of science's most basic questions announced plans Thursday to build atoms of anti-matter and then "cage" them for use in experiments. The...
View ArticleCERN scientists refine antimatter 'trap'
GENEVA — Nuclear scientists announced Sunday they have found a way to "trap" for more than 15 minutes elusive antimatter atoms that used to disappear after a fraction of a second. That will give...
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