International collaboration including MPQ scientists sets a new value for the antiproton mass relative to the electron with unprecedented precision.
General Physics
Jul 28, 2011
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Two international teams of physicists, including RIKEN researchers (Japan), have trapped and manipulated atoms made out of antimatter, in milestone experiments that should help to reveal why the substance is so rare in our ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2011
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Antimatter, a substance that often features in science fiction, is routinely created at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, to provide us with a better understanding of atoms and molecules. Now, Japanese ...
General Physics
Dec 24, 2010
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Physicists at the University of British Columbia and TRIUMF have proposed a unified explanation for dark matter and the so-called baryon asymmetry -- the apparent imbalance of matter with positive baryon charge and antimatter ...
General Physics
Nov 29, 2010
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An international research team led by the University of Liverpool has made a discovery that will help with the search for electric dipole moments (EDM) in atoms and could contribute to new theories of particle physics, such ...
General Physics
Jun 6, 2019
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It is one of the greatest mysteries in the universe: Why is there so much more matter than antimatter?
General Physics
Jul 2, 2018
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The absence of antimatter in the universe is a long-standing jigsaw puzzle in physics. Many experiments have been exploring this question by finding asymmetries between particles and their antimatter counterparts.
General Physics
Mar 20, 2017
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Twenty years ago a team of scientists at CERN led by Walter Oelert succeeded in producing the first atoms made of antimatter particles.
General Physics
Sep 24, 2015
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At its 153rd session today, the CERN Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last weekend have set ...
General Physics
Dec 18, 2009
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The standard model of particle physics suggests that matter and antimatter are equal and opposite in every way. Yet the observable Universe is made almost entirely of matter—an asymmetry that remains one of the greatest ...
General Physics
Mar 7, 2014
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