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Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
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University of California - Riverside
Caption: The ultra-high vacuum target chamber, where the intense positron pulse is implanted into the porous silica film. The magnet coils carry a current of 1000 amps for a few hundred milliseconds to generate the strong magnetic field needed to compress the positron beam.
Credit: David Cassidy, UC-Riverside.
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