ALPHA Shines Light on Antimatter Question
Monday, December 19, 2016 - 11:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Released today in the prestigious journal Nature, the collaboration reports on the first spectroscopic measurement of an atom of antimatter using lasers. ALPHA is an international team of researchers, including the ALPHA-Canada group, which studies antihydrogen, the antimatter partner to hydrogen. Their latest work represents a major step towards developing a very precise test of whether antimatter behaves differently than its normal matter anti-twin, thus opening up a promising new front to address the basic antimatter question: "if matter and antimatter were created equally during the Big Bang, where is all the antimatter?"