Researchers from the ALPHA collaboration at CERN have created a laser that allows not only to contain antimatter, but also
The authors say that laser technologymanipulation by supercooling ordinary atoms appeared 40 years ago. It became a kind of revolution in modern atomic physics. This was the first time that scientists have applied such methods to antimatter.
It was something like a crazy dream -manipulate antimatter with a laser. I am very glad that our dream has finally come true as a result of the enormous teamwork of both Canadian and foreign scientists.
Makot Fujiwara, an employee of the TRIUMF center and one of the authors of the study
Physicists hope that the new laser will enable a series of quantum experiments to study the properties of antimatter.
In particular, now scientists from the Canadian ALPHA team are implementing a national HAICU project to develop new quantum methods for studying antimatter.
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