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CERN Successfully Transports Antimatter by Truck in World-First Test Drive
CERN transported about 100 antiprotons around its Geneva campus, with roughly 91% surviving the test, advancing future antimatter delivery to research labs.
- Scientists at CERN in Geneva successfully completed a "pioneering" 30-minute road test on Tuesday, transporting 92 antiprotons inside a specially designed 1,000-kilogram cryogenic box.
- Because antimatter annihilates instantly upon contact with regular matter, the particles had to be suspended in a vacuum using supercooled magnets to prevent them from touching the walls of the container.
- Led by spokesperson Stefan Ulmer, the experiment aimed to prove that infinitesimal particles can survive the vibrations and "bumps in the road" of traditional vehicle transport without seeping out or being destroyed.
- This successful campus run is the first step toward a long-term plan to deliver antiprotons to external research facilities, such as Heinrich Heine University in Germany, for high-accuracy comparisons between matter and antimatter.
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Scientists take antimatter on its first ever road trip as they study how to transport the ultra-sensitive cargo
Scientists take antimatter on its first ever road trip as they study how to transport the ultra-sensitive cargo.
·Calhoun, United States
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Antimatter – this mysterious substance of the universe inspires the imagination and at the same time stirs up fears among many people. Now it is to be transported for the first time on the road. Never before has anything "similar" been accomplished.
·Dortmund, Germany
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Geneva's CERN hails delicate test on transporting antimatter as a scientific success
Scientists at CERN took some antiprotons out for a spin in a never-tried-before test drive. Tuesday's experiment was hailed as a success.
·United States
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