Antihydrogen atoms trapped one at a time for 0.17 seconds
NOV 18, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024840
Nature : The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has succeeded in creating then trapping single atoms of antihydrogen. The collaboration reported their findings yesterday in Nature. ALPHA and another, rival team at CERN called ATHENA had created antihydrogen eight years ago, but neither team had trapped any antiatoms. The confinement time achieved by ALPHA, 0.17 s, is long enough to perform experiments, but the atoms are too warm to yield results that might reveal any theory-challenging differences between the behavior of matter and antimatter.
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