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Antimatter

Popular Physics 2025-02-17 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this article we concisely explain: what antimatter is, its differentiation between primordial and secondary, how it is produced, where it can be found, the experiments carried out at CERN to create and analyze antiatoms, the problem of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the medical and technological applications of antimatter in our society.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2412.12128,
  title  = {Antimatter},
  author = {Beatriz Gato-Rivera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.12128},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

14 pages, 9 figures, most in color. Translation to English of the article "La Antimateria", that was awarded with the 2021 Prize to the best outreach article published in the magazine of the Spanish Royal Physics Society (RSEF). Dedicated to the memory of Indian female physicist Rohini Godbole, for encouraging me to do this translation

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