Cool discovery From the research letter’s abstract: This Letter reports the discovery of an antiproton radiation belt around the Earth. From the research letter’s conclusion: Antiprotons trapped in Earth’s inner radiation belt have been observed for the first time by the PAMELA [Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics — a June 2006 Russia-launched, [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: anti-matter, antimatter, belt, charge, cosmic ray, Jason Mick, magnetism, PAMELA, Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics, proton, South Atlantic Anomaly, The discovery of geomagnetically trapped cosmic ray antiprotons
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- 8 August 2011 – 11:25
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- By BrainiYak
Playing with a laser, particle accelerator, and a vacuum ScienceDaily reported today that four people think it is possible to make something from nothing: The scientists and engineers have developed new equations that show how a high-energy electron beam combined with an intense laser pulse could rip apart a vacuum into its fundamental matter and [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: anti-matter, Gerard Mourou, Igor Sokolov, John Nees, matter, Natalia Naumova, Pair Creation in QED-Strong Pulsed Laser Fields Interacting with Electron Beams, Paul Dirac, vacuum
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- 8 December 2010 – 16:56
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- By BrainiYak