CERN scientists get antimatter ready for its first road trip
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 1:47 pm
"but Captain, the matter/anti-matter shields can't take much more..."
Scotty (in about every Star Trek show)
https://newatlas.com/cern-plan-transpor ... 1-92133337
CERN scientists get antimatter ready for its first road trip
"Antimatter is notoriously tricky to store and study, thanks to the fact that it will vanish in a burst of energy if it so much as touches regular matter. The CERN lab is one of the only places in the world that can readily produce the stuff, but getting it into the hands of the scientists who want to study it is another matter (pun not intended). After all, how can you transport something that will annihilate any physical container you place it in? Now, CERN researchers are planning to trap and truck antimatter from one facility to another."
"The team is designing a new trap that locks antiprotons in a "bottle", keeping the atoms suspended in the center with powerful magnetic and electric fields. The atoms will be stored in a vacuum like that of intergalactic space, and at a temperature slightly above absolute zero. Ideally the trap will be able to store a billion antiprotons at once, over 100 times more than any existing technology, and keep them there for several weeks at a time."
wouldn't they need to "trap" anti-matter with anti-magnetic and anti-electric fields?
Scotty (in about every Star Trek show)
https://newatlas.com/cern-plan-transpor ... 1-92133337
CERN scientists get antimatter ready for its first road trip
"Antimatter is notoriously tricky to store and study, thanks to the fact that it will vanish in a burst of energy if it so much as touches regular matter. The CERN lab is one of the only places in the world that can readily produce the stuff, but getting it into the hands of the scientists who want to study it is another matter (pun not intended). After all, how can you transport something that will annihilate any physical container you place it in? Now, CERN researchers are planning to trap and truck antimatter from one facility to another."
"The team is designing a new trap that locks antiprotons in a "bottle", keeping the atoms suspended in the center with powerful magnetic and electric fields. The atoms will be stored in a vacuum like that of intergalactic space, and at a temperature slightly above absolute zero. Ideally the trap will be able to store a billion antiprotons at once, over 100 times more than any existing technology, and keep them there for several weeks at a time."
wouldn't they need to "trap" anti-matter with anti-magnetic and anti-electric fields?