Antimatter fascinates physicists, but its extreme fragility imposes permanent confinement in fixed installations, where the slightest contact with ordinary matter would cause its annihilation. By carrying out the very first antimatter transport on its site, the CERN takes a major step and opens a new perspective for the study of antiparticles out of their usual environment. A technological feat of a thousand kilograms The experience was a bold b…
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Antimatter fascinates physicists, but its extreme fragility imposes permanent confinement in fixed installations, where the slightest contact with ordinary matter would cause its annihilation. By carrying out the very first antimatter transport on its site, the CERN takes a major step and opens a new perspective for the study of antiparticles out of their usual environment. A technological feat of a thousand kilograms The experience was a bold b…