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Antimatter catches a wave at SLAC


August 26, 2015

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A study led by researchers from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los Angeles, and partially supported by the National Science Foundation has demonstrated a new, efficient way to accelerate positrons, the antimatter opposites of electrons. The method may help boost the energy and shrink the size of future linear particle colliders--powerful accelerators that could be used to unravel the properties of nature's fundamental building blocks.Full Story

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