Read article 'ALPHA traps antihydrogen for minutes'
ALPHA traps antihydrogen for minutes
The ALPHA antiatom trap consists of a transverse octupole magnet and two short solenoid or “mirror” coils.
Read article 'ALPHA traps antihydrogen for minutes'
Read article 'SuperB Factory set to be built at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’'
SuperB Factory set to be built at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’
The SuperB project involves the construction underground of a new asymmetric high-luminosity electron–positron collider.
Read article 'RHIC reveals heaviest antimatter'
RHIC reveals heaviest antimatter
Members of the international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed antihelium-4.
Read article 'ALPHA collaboration gets antihydrogen in the trap'
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.
Read article 'At the cusp in ASACUSA'
At the cusp in ASACUSA
Yasunori Yamazaki describes work towards an antihydrogen beam.
Read article 'Antihydrogen scoops award for breakthroughs'
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 ...
Read article 'STAR finds heaviest antinucleus'
STAR finds heaviest antinucleus
Studies of high-energy collisions of gold ions by the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Brookhaven, have revealed evidence of the most massive antinucleus to date.
Read article 'Laser-pulse blasts set antiparticle production record'
Laser-pulse blasts set antiparticle production record
The latest record for antiparticle density created in the laboratory has not come from an accelerator facility but from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Jupiter laser facility.
Read article 'Why antihydrogen and antimatter are different'
Why antihydrogen and antimatter are different
As Dirac realized, there’s more to antimatter than antihydrogen.
Read article 'PAMELA pins down cosmic antiproton flux'
PAMELA pins down cosmic antiproton flux
The satellite experiment Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) has made a new measurement of the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio in cosmic rays with energi...
