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A breakthrough in the ability to cool high-energy antiproton beams could provide the key to unleashing the potential of the world's highest-energy particle collider.

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Figure 1: Cooling a beam of antiprotons with relativistic electrons.

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Peach, K. Now that's cool!. Nature Phys 2, 147–148 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys250

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