Antihydrogen
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Antihydrogen is the antimatter counterpart of hydrogen. Whereas the common hydrogen atom is composed of an electron and proton, the antihydrogen atom is made up of a positron and antiproton. Scientist
Antihydrogen consists of an antiproton and a positron
CERN
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also called European Laboratory for Particle Physics, known as CERN, is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics lab
Antihydrogen
…detected hot antihydrogen in the 1990s. ATHENA studied cold H in 2002. It was first trapped by the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) team at CERN in 2010, who then measured the structure and other important properties. ALPHA, AEgIS, and GBAR plan to further cool and study H atoms. In 2016, the…
CERN's main site in Meyrin, Switzerland, looking towards the French border
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