New Approach in the Hunt for Dark Matter: Antimatter and Penning Traps
Researchers now harnessing antimatter in their search for dark matter. A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been…
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Mysteries of Dark Matter and Antimatter May Be Linked
Could the profound mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? Thinking that they might be, scientists from the international BASE collaboration, led by Stefan…
Imbalance Between Matter and Antimatter Helps Explain Our Existence
The universe consists of matter. Matter is everything we see around us. That’s strange – but why? In theory, there should also be large amounts…
PROSPECT Ready To Search For A Previously Unobserved Particle
The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT) has completed the installation of a novel antineutrino detector that will probe the possible existence of a…
Physicists Report First Results from CUORE Neutrino Experiment
New data could shed light on why the universe has more matter than antimatter. This week, an international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT,…
Underground Neutrino Experiment Searches for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
If equal amounts of matter and antimatter had formed in the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, one would have annihilated the other…
How Gamma-Rays from Lightning Produce Radioisotopes and Positrons
A storm system approaches: the sky darkens, and the low rumble of thunder echoes from the horizon. Then without warning… Flash! Crash! — lightning has…
HAWC Collaboration Sheds Light on Antimatter Puzzle
A mountaintop observatory about four hours east of Mexico City, built and operated by an international team of scientists, has captured the first wide-angle view…
Astrophysicists Solve Mystery of How Antimatter in the Milky Way Forms
In a newly published study led by Australian National University, astrophysicists reveal how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms. Antimatter is material…
Plasma Wakefield Acceleration, A Step Toward Smaller Particle Colliders
In a new study, researchers detail how a technique called plasma wakefield acceleration could enable them to build more economical particle colliders. A study led…
First Data from Ultra-Cold Neutrino Experiment
Physicists have announced the first scientific results from the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events experiment, which is designed to confirm the existence of the…
CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen
A newly published study describes the how the ASACUSA experiment at CERN produced a beam of antihydrogen atoms for the first time. The ASACUSA experiment…
Physicists Discover First Direct Evidence of Pear Shaped Nuclei in Exotic Atoms
A newly published study details the how physicists discovered the first direct evidence of pear shaped nuclei in exotic atoms, a finding that could help…
Researchers Use Data from CERN to Measure Antimatter Gravity Directly
In a new study, physicists from the Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley used data from the ALPHA Experiment at CERN to measure antimatter gravity directly,…
CERN Details New Observation of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
A new study from the LHCb collaboration at CERN details the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the…
AMS Announces the First Results in Its Search for Dark Matter
AMS announced the first results in its search for dark matter, reporting the observation of an excess of positrons in the cosmic ray flux. Geneva…
Physicists Measure Magnetic Moment of Single Particles of Matter and Antimatter
A research team led by Harvard University physicists has measured the magnetic moment of single particles of matter and antimatter with unprecedented precision. As described…
UW-Madison Researchers Help Explain the Scarcity of Anti-Matter
The Daya Bay Neutrino experiment, recognized by Science magazine as a runner-up for the breakthrough of the year, is helping physicists explain why the universe…