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

Asking the important questions

This is super cool. So it was anywhere from 100-1k anti protons transported 5 km, and my fave bit from the article

According to CERN, if the trap fails during transport, the energy released will be around one millionth of a joule – about as much as it takes to press a keyboard key.

Neat!