Proton Transport From the Antimatter Factory of CERN

CERN researchers took a few antimatter particles for a walk in an unprecedented transportation test

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, is one of the few places on Earth capable of routinely producing antimatter from high-energy collisions with...

Proton transport from the antimatter factory of CERN

Precision measurements using low-energy antiprotons, exclusively available at the antimatter factory (AMF) of CERN1, offer stringent tests of charge–parity–time (CPT) invariance, which is a fundamental symmetry in the Standard Model of particle physics2. These tests have been realized, for example, in antiprotonic helium3 and antihydrogen4. In our cryogenic Penning-trap experiments5, we measure the magnetic moments6,7 and charge-to-mass ratios o…

CERN scientists 'transport' antimatter from France to Switzerland

Scientists at CERN have successfully transported antimatter outside their laboratory for the first time, marking a breakthrough in physics research. The European research centre developed a specialised two-metre-long containment device to safely carry antimatter over a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) journey. The antimatter was transported by truck across the CERN campus, crossing the border from France into Switzerland before returning to its startin…

CERN scientists successfully transport antimatter in special container

“We transferred the trapped protons from our experimental area at the AMF (antimatter factory) onto a truck and transported them across the Meyrin site of CERN,” the team noted.

Fermilab’s Moment of Truth: Will Muon g‑2 Break the Standard Model?

In the early 2000s, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory made a discovery that sent shockwaves through the physics community. They were studying the muon, a subatomic particle that behaves like a heavy cousin of the electron, weighing over 200 times more. What they found challenged everything physicists thought they knew about how particles behave. The […] The post Fermilab’s Moment of Truth: Will Muon g‑2 Break the Standard Model? appea…

The research of antimatter releases unimaginably much energy. Such a drive could accelerate close to the speed of light. (Antimatter, LHC)