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…
Antimatter
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…
How the Tiniest Particles in Our Universe Saved Us From Complete Annihilation
Recently discovered ripples of spacetime called gravitational waves could contain evidence to prove the theory that life survived the Big Bang because of a phase…
Unexpected Twist in Quantum Physics May Explain Matter/Antimatter Imbalance
Lack of symmetry in qubits can’t fix errors in quantum computing, but might explain matter/antimatter imbalance. Unexpected twist in the Kibble-Zurek theory offers a new…
New Calculation Using the World’s Fastest Supercomputers Refines Comparison of Matter With Antimatter
Theorists publish improved prediction for the tiny difference in kaon decays observed by experiments. An international collaboration of theoretical physicists—including scientists from the U.S. Department…
Timing the Life of Antimatter Particles – Less Than 1/50,000,000 Second – May Lead to Better Cancer Treatment
Japanese team aims to detect oxygen concentration in tumors using upgraded medical imaging scan. Experts in Japan have devised a simple way to glean more…
Exotic Particles Offer Deeper Insight Into Matter and Antimatter
At the European nuclear and particle physics laboratory CERN, physicists can produce extremely rare short-lived atoms and molecules. Researchers from KU Leuven have shown that…
At Long Last: An Answer to the Mystery Surrounding Matter and Antimatter
An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our universe has been…
Physicists May Have Solved Long-Standing Mystery of Matter and Antimatter
An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our Universe has been…
New Antimatter Experiment at Large Hadron Collider Will Help With the Search for Dark Matter
The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the production rates of antideuterons based on data collected at the highest collision energy delivered so far…
Understanding the Mystery of Matter in the Universe – Why Is There Any Matter in the Universe at All?
Scientists one step closer to understanding the mystery of matter in the universe. Neutron’s ‘electric dipole moment’ smaller than ever predicted New international standard for…
Long-Standing Antimatter Mystery May Be Solved by Discovery of Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-Ray ‘Halo’
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visible to the human eye,…