antiatoms

Positrons orbiting antiprotons

Antiatoms are atoms composed of antiparticles—antiprotons and positrons instead of protons and electrons.

When antimatter meets ordinary matter, both annihilate in a burst of energy.

Physicists create and study antiatoms briefly in laboratory conditions to test fundamental symmetries of the universe: Researchers at CERN trapped antihydrogen atoms for several minutes.

antimatter

antihydrogen

Antimatter version of simplest element

antielectron · annihilation · Dirac · CERN · ALPHA · trapping · confinement · spectroscopy · collider · production

symmetry

CPT

Abbreviated military rank

asymmetry · violation · Lorentz

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matter type

antiatomsatoms

Smallest elemental units

matter

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