Tag: Antimatter

  • Optical fibre link to make CERN more on time than ever

    Optical fibre link to make CERN more on time than ever

    A new optical fibre link between CERN and Paris will provide the Laboratory with an accurate frequency reference, enhancing precision and supporting experiments like ALPHA in their search for matter–antimatter differences

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  • BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter

    BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter

    The experiment successfully transported a box filled with unbonded protons across CERN’s main site, thus demonstrating that the same feat could later be possible for antiprotons

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  • Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

    Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

    The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties

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  • AMBER releases its first results

    AMBER releases its first results

    The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter

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  • ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    The result is a milestone in the study of the properties and behaviour of antimatter

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  • GBAR joins the anticlub

    GBAR joins the anticlub

    The GBAR experiment at CERN has just joined the very select club of experiments that have succeeded in synthesising antihydrogen atoms

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  • Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC

    Accelerator Report: Reviving antimatter physics and fine-tuning luminosity measurements in the LHC

    On Friday, 30 June, an exciting milestone was reached: the much-awaited antiproton physics season finally commenced

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  • LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

    The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind

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  • Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance

    Accelerator Report: Overcoming setbacks, antiprotons return as LHC recovers luminescent brilliance

    The AD operations team received on Friday, 1 June – 12 days earlier than rescheduled – the green light from the AD injection kicker expert: beam could be injected again in the AD ring

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  • Probing fundamental symmetries of nature with the Higgs boson

    Probing fundamental symmetries of nature with the Higgs boson

    The ATLAS collaboration tested Higgs-boson interactions with the carriers of the weak force, looking for signs of charge-parity symmetry violation

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