ALPHA collaboration gets antihydrogen in the trap
Do matter and antimatter obey the same laws of physics? One intriguing way to test this would be to compare the spectra of hydrogen and its antimatter twin: antihydrogen.
Antihydrogen scoops award for breakthroughs
Both ALPHA and ASACUSA aim to measure precisely the spectrum of antihydrogen and compare it with that of hydrogen. Any small difference would cast light on the imbalance between matter and antimatter ...
Why antihydrogen and antimatter are different
As Dirac realized, there’s more to antimatter than antihydrogen.
ASACUSA moves towards new antihydrogen experiments
Recently, the Japanese–European group made the first steps towards producing a low-velocity antihydrogen beam.
Keeping antihydrogen: the ALPHA trap
Jeffrey Hangst describes a new antihydrogen experiment at CERN.
ATRAP tests new way to make antihydrogen
The new method consists of exciting caesium atoms from an oven with two lasers, and then introducing the caesium into a positron trap.
ATRAP catches speed of antihydrogen
This is an important step towards the goal of producing antihydrogen atoms cold enough – that is, slow enough – for precision spectroscopy.
ATRAP looks inside antihydrogen
Relying on ionization of the cold antiatoms when they pass through a strong electric field gradient, the ATRAP measurement provides the first glimpse inside an antiatom.
