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Proposed Search for Antimatter among Hydrogen-like Atoms in the Ambiplasma

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H. Alfvén and O. Klein have developed1,2 an appealing idea in which antimatter plays an important part in cosmology. N. A. Vlasov3 has suggested an optical method for observing hydrogen-like atoms in an ambiplasma consisting of protons, anti-protons, electrons and positrons.

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BARKER, W., COSTANZI, F., DRAHMANN, J. et al. Proposed Search for Antimatter among Hydrogen-like Atoms in the Ambiplasma. Nature 211, 1383–1384 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111383a0

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