Anti-Matter. The Europeans know what they are doing. (click title to entry - thank you)

A part of Large Hadron Collider is seen in its tunnel at the CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland. File photo

 

 

 Trapped antihydrogen  (click here)

• G. B. Andresen,

• M. D. Ashkezari,

• M. Baquero-Ruiz,

• W. Bertsche,

• P. D. Bowe,

• E. Butler,

• C. L. Cesar,

• S. Chapman,

• M. Charlton,

• A. Deller,

• S. Eriksson,

• J. Fajans,

• T. Friesen,

• M. C. Fujiwara,

• D. R. Gill,

• A. Gutierrez,

• J. S. Hangst,hangst@phys.au.dk

• W. N. Hardy,

• M. E. Hayden,

• A. J. Humphries,

• R. Hydomako,

• M. J. Jenkins,

• S. Jonsell,

• L. V. Jørgensen,

• L. Kurchaninov,

• N. Madsen,

• S. Menary,

• P. Nolan,

• K. Olchanski,

• A. Olin,

• A. Povilus,

• P. Pusa,

• F. Robicheaux,

• E. Sarid,

• S. Seif el Nasr,

• D. M. Silveira,

• C. So,

• J. W. Storey,

• R. I. Thompson,

• D. P. van der Werf,

• J. S. Wurtele

• & Y. Yamazaki

• et al.

...Under a theory expounded in 1931 by the eccentric British physicist Paul Dirac, when energy transforms into matter, it produces a particle and its mirror image — called an anti-particle — which holds the opposite electrical charge.

When particles and anti-particles collide, they annihilate each other in a small flash of energy. Until now, experiments have produced anti-atoms, namely of hydrogen, but only in a free state. That means they instantly collide with ordinary matter and get annihilated, making it impossible to measure them or study their structure.

In a paper published on Wednesday by the British journal Nature, a team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva explain a method of snaring these so-called anti-hydrogen atoms....