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LHC Update: Lead Ion Collisions and Trapped Antimatter

Thu, 25th Nov 2010

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Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been colliding lead ions - allowing us to get an idea of conditions in the very early universe.  Meanwhile, other CERN researchers have trapped an antihydrogen antiatom...

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ALICE experiment announces first results from LHC’s lead-ion collisions, Symmetry Breaking

Trapped Antihydrogen, Nature

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