Unraveling a Cosmic Antimatter Mystery
Physicists invoke the cosmological collider to demonstrate why matter, not antimatter, dominates the universe. The universe was filled with equal numbers of matter and “antimatter” –…
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Are There Anti-Stars (Made of Antimatter) Around Us?
Are there anti-stars around us? Answer from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. What if some of the antimatter that was thought to have disappeared was…
Antiprotons in Superfluid: Hybrid Antimatter-Matter Atom Behaves in Unexpected Way
A team of scientists at CERN led by MPQ physicist Masaki Hori discovered that a hybrid antimatter-matter atom behaves in an unexpected way when immersed…
41-Million-Pixel Vertex Locator May Unlock Some of the Most Enduring Mysteries of the Universe
The device hopes to answer the ultimate existential questions. The final piece of an all-new detector has completed the first leg of its journey toward…
Large Hadron Collider Reveals Secret of Antimatter Creation in Cosmic Collisions
Recently at the Quark Matter conference and before that at the Rencontres de Moriond conference, the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration presented an analysis of…
Tiny Star Unleashes Monstrous Beam of Matter and Anti-Matter
A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter that stretches for trillions of miles. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed…
Unexpected Behavior of Hybrid Matter–Antimatter Atoms in Superfluid Helium Surprises Physicists at CERN
The result may open doors to several lines of research in particle physics and beyond. A hybrid matter–antimatter helium atom containing an antiproton, the proton’s…
Largest Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Observed at Large Hadron Collider
New results from the LHCb experiment on CP asymmetry in charmless three-body charged B meson decays include the largest CP asymmetry ever observed. CP asymmetry…
Tiny Star Unleashes Gargantuan Beam of Matter and Anti-Matter That Stretches for 40 Trillion Miles
Astronomers have imaged a beam of matter and antimatter that is 40 trillion miles long with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The record-breaking beam is powered…
Cosmic Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Produce Particle-Antiparticle Pairs From a Vacuum
Cosmic physics mimicked on table-top as graphene enables Schwinger effect. Researchers at The University of Manchester have succeeded in observing the so-called Schwinger effect, an…
Unexpected Substructures in the Fundamental Components of All Matter
Quarks and Antiquarks at High Momentum Shake the Foundations of Visible Matter Jefferson Lab and Fermilab experiments present new results on nucleon structure. Two independent…
Scientists Generate Matter Directly From Light – Physics Phenomena Predicted More Than 80 Years Ago
Collisions of Light Produce Matter and Antimatter From Pure Energy Study demonstrates a long-predicted process for generating matter directly from light — plus evidence that…
MIT Physicists Find New Clues to Why There’s So Little Antimatter in the Universe
Radioactive molecules are sensitive to subtle nuclear phenomena and might help physicists probe the violation of the most fundamental symmetries of nature. Imagine a dust…
Subatomic Particle Seen Changing to Antiparticle and Back for the First Time in Extraordinary Experiment
A team of physicists, including the University of Warwick, have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in…
Antimatter: Scientists Trap Elusive Material by Blasting It With Lasers
Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. It’s the counterpart to matter: identical in every way – with…
CERN Scientists Successfully Laser-Cool Antimatter for the First Time
The result opens the door to considerably more precise studies of the response of antimatter to light and of how it behaves under the influence…
World’s First Laser-Based Manipulation of Antimatter (The Otherworldly Counterpart to Matter)
Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world’s first laser-based manipulation of antimatter, leveraging a made-in-Canada laser system to cool a sample of…
Radioactive Molecules May Help Solve Cosmic Mystery of Missing Antimatter
Stars, galaxies, and everything in the universe, including our own bodies, are comprised of so-called regular matter. Regular matter includes atoms and molecules, which are…
