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Scientists working on the biggest trap antimatter

If you try to explain

simply, the antimatter – a mirror image of matter. Each particle of matter has its “dark reflection”, which has the same mass but opposite charge. For example, the opposite of a negatively charged electron acts as a positively charged positron. Get antimatter is incredibly difficult, but keep it – even more difficult. The problem is that when a particle of antimatter comes into contact with a particle of matter, both vzaimounichtozhayutsya. That is not a material “bottles” to store antimatter. But now scientists from the University of California are working on a device that can hold antimatter long enough so that it can be studied. Physicist Clifford

Sarko (Clifford Surko) and his colleagues are building the world’s biggest traps that can hold more than a trillion low-energy positrons at the same time. The key to implementing this is to use electric and magnetic fields as “walls of the bottle.” Parallel to this is to explore ways of cooling antiparticles to ultralow temperatures, which allow scientists to slow them down hard enough for further investigation.

According to scientists, a large number of antiparticles can be compressed into clumps with high density, which will be used for practical purposes. “After compression, these clusters can be produced from the” bottle “with a thin beam – imagine squeezing toothpaste from a tube” – provides a visual analogy Clifford Sarko. “These rays will give us new ways of learning how to interact with traditional anti-particle of matter. They are very useful, for example, to understand the surface properties of various materials ».

Sarko claims that one of the ways to further the work of the trap is to create antiparticles its portable version, suitable for use in various medical and industrial purposes. It sounds very fantastic, but do not forget that anti-matter is already being used in modern medicine – for example, positron emission tomography.

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