Heavy antimatter created in gold collisions
11 Mar 2010, 16:58 UTC
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Source: Nature
Simulation of a particle collision at ATLAS (CERN).Credit: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
Physicists have rooted through a morass of collisions to find the heaviest antimatter nucleus yet inside one of their particle accelerators.
Collisions between gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) on Long Island, New York, have yielded heavy isotopes of [...]
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