Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months
Physicists at Northwestern University captured and confined a single positron in a cryogenic superconducting vacuum trap, maintaining it for several months. The team used a sodium radioactive source and a tungsten crystal to slow the particle before trapping it, marking a prolonged isolation of antimatter.
Source: Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months — ScienceAlert
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