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From the tops of thunderstorms: Antimatter

News: Nuclear Physics    January 12, 2011
Gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) emitted from thunderstorms…..Credit: NASA When thinking about particle physics, most people will think about laboratories and human-built devices, especially the monster atom smashers like the Tevatron or Large Hadron Collider. Well, it turns out nature beat us to it. The primal particle accelerator on Earth turns out to be the thunderstorm. Every [...]
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Trapping antimatter so it finally can be studied

News: Nuclear Physics    November 18, 2010
The ALPHA trap for antihydrogen….credit: N.Madsen, ALPHA/Swansea The problem with antimatter is that it is very anti-social; it doesn’t stick around long enough to get to know it. Matter, the stuff we and everything we know is made of, destroys…annihilates antimatter immediately (or the other way around, if you like). The explosive nature of matter [...]
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Looking at the strange face of antimatter

News: Nuclear Physics    March 5, 2010
Scarcely three weeks ago, it was reported that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory had achieved the all time (laboratory) high temperature record of 4 trillion degrees Centigrade. [SciTechStory: Taking the temperature of the Big Bang + milliseconds] The significance was that in colliding atoms of gold and producing such [...]
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