Read article 'Antimatter – the Ultimate Mirror'
Antimatter – the Ultimate Mirror
Former CERN Courier editor Gordon Fraser has added brand-new material for the paperback edition of his fast-paced account of the story of antimatter.
Read article 'Antimatter – the Ultimate Mirror'
Read article 'Helping the AMS experiment to detect antiparticles in space'
Helping the AMS experiment to detect antiparticles in space
Particle physicists involved in the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment are eagerly scanning data recorded during a December 2001 NASA space shuttle mission.
Read article 'Weighing the antiproton'
Weighing the antiproton
The ASACUSA collaboration has just published a determination of the antiproton charge and mass to an incredible six parts in a hundred million. How was this impressive precision achieved and why is ...
Read article 'Getting up to speed in the year AD 2'
Getting up to speed in the year AD 2
After coming into operation last year, CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) has got up to speed for physics this year.
Read article 'Focusing an antimatter beam with matter'
Focusing an antimatter beam with matter
An experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has recently focused positron beams by means of a plasma lens. This is the first time this process has been observed.
Read article 'Antiprotons come with all the trappings'
Antiprotons come with all the trappings
Now coming into action for physics is CERN's new Antiproton Decelerator, opening another chapter of CERN's tradition of physics with antiprotons.
Read article 'Antimatter – the Ultimate Mirror'
Antimatter – the Ultimate Mirror
Gordon Kane, reviews in 2000 Antimatter - the Ultimate Mirror.
Read article 'Antiprotons spring surprises'
Antiprotons spring surprises
Experiments at CERN's low-energy antiproton ring (LEAR), closed in 1996, brought many very-high-precision and sometimes surprising antiproton results.
Read article 'Raising the curtain on antimatter'
Raising the curtain on antimatter
At first sight, physics and theatre are difficult to mix, but this is no reason not to try. Together, the genius of Dirac, the dilemma of antimatter, an unusual setting and some physical and mental ...
Read article 'The Delphic Oracleand antimatter'
The Delphic Oracleand antimatter
This winter, CERN's LEP pit formed the backdrop for an unusual theatrical performance portraying Paul Dirac's mathematical discovery of antimatter symmetry.
