antiproton

The antiproton is the antimatter counterpart to the proton.

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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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Accelerators
05 July, 2023

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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Accelerators
06 June, 2023

New magnets for FAIR tested at CERN

CERN has strong partnerships and collaborations with laboratories and research infrastructures in the Member States. One recent example saw superconducting magnets for the future FAIR facility at Germany’s GSI laboratory being tested at CERN

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Accelerators
11 August, 2021
Accelerators
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11 August, 2021

BASE opens up new possibilities in the search for cold dark matter

The Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) at CERN’s Antimatter Factory has set new limits on how easily axion-like particles could turn into photons

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Physics
26 January, 2021

Exceptionally slow antiprotons

The commissioning of ELENA continued in 2018, culminating in the production of the first very-low-energy antiproton beams

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Accelerators
07 March, 2019
Accelerators
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07 March, 2019

The PUMA project: Antimatter goes nomad

A new European project linking ELENA and ISOLDE plans to trap antimatter in order to explore quantum phenomena in radioactive nuclei

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Physics
11 March, 2018
Physics
News
11 March, 2018

Making antimatter transportable

A project called PUMA aims to transport antimatter from one CERN facility to another in order to investigate exotic nuclear phenomena

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Physics
07 March, 2018
Physics
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07 March, 2018

Cosmic collisions at the LHCb experiment

What happens when protons in cosmic rays collide with helium nuclei? The LHCb experiment is on the case

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Experiments
27 March, 2017
Experiments
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27 March, 2017

BASE precisely measures antiproton’s magnetic moment

CERN experiment reports sixfold improved measurement of the magnetic moment of the antiproton

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Physics
18 January, 2017

The BASE antiprotons celebrate their first birthday

BASE has kept a shot of antiprotons trapped for more than one year: it is the longest-lived, coldest, known baryonic antimatter object in the Universe

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Physics
20 December, 2016

A new ring to slow down antimatter

The commissioning of ELENA, a new antiproton deceleration ring, has begun

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Physics
29 November, 2016
Physics
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29 November, 2016

BASE compares protons to antiprotons with high precision

In a paper published today in Nature, BASE reports the most precise comparison of the charge-to-mass ratio of the proton to the antiproton

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Physics
12 August, 2015