For the first time in the world, antimatter is being transported by road at CERN in Geneva. The test carried out on Tuesday at the nuclear research centre is intended to prove that the antiparticles can be transported safely.
For the first time in the world, antimatter is being transported by road at CERN in Geneva. The test carried out on Tuesday at the nuclear research centre is intended to prove that the antiparticles can be transported safely.
This is super cool. So it was anywhere from 100-1k anti protons transported 5 km, and my fave bit from the article
Neat!
That is an insane amount of energy for something so little
Oh definitely. I’m not a physicist but I’m pretty sure the matter-anti matter reaction is like near perfect efficiency right? So all of those particles plus the non anti pairs converted virtually entirely to energy, that’s a lot
Question for any particle physicists if one stumbles on this thread, iirc most of the mass in hadrons is from the internal QCD interactions, so is that reaction’s energy also largely from the quark anti-quark interactions? If so I mean, trying to comprehend the quarks interacting between the particles in the reaction twists my brain somehow
which direction did they design it to fail tho
What type of key switch though?
Asking the important questions