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Antimatter trapped for more than 15 minutes

Physicists have forced flighty atoms of antihydrogen to stick around, affording a better look at how antimatter behaves.

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  1. The ALPHA Collaboration Nature Phys. doi:10.1038/nphys2025 (2011).

  2. Surko, C. M. Nature Phys. doi:10.1038/nphys2030 (2011).

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This article was first published by Scientific American on 5 June, 2011.

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Matson, J. Antimatter trapped for more than 15 minutes. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.349

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