Enlarge / The hardware that slows down antiprotons so they can be used in these sorts of experiments. (credit: CERN ) In Wednesday’s issue of Nature, a new paper describes a potentially useful way associated with measuring the interactions between normal matter and exotic particles, like anti-protons and unstable items such as kaons or elements […]
Enlarge / One of the magnets used to help contain antimatter. (credit: Brookhaven National Lab) On Wednesday, scientists reported successfully cooling atoms made of antimatter using an ultraviolet laser. The cooling process deployed here works on normal matter, so it was also expected to work just fine with the antihydrogen used for these experiments. Rather […]