Antimatter Trapped (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Antimatter Trapped

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Like ordinary hydrogen, a single electron orbiting a proton nucleus, antihydrogen is the simplest of atoms, a single positron (antielectron) orbiting a single antiproton. CERN's ALPHA experiment was first to trap antihydrogen in a magnetic bottle, using a superconducting octupole magnet.

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Images by Chukman So, copyright © 2011 Wurtele Research Group. All rights reserved.

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