The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is an international experiment supported by the US Department of Energy and NASA. But one experiment is looking for feral antimatter freely roaming through outer space.
Even further, this "bottle" would be able to store the antiprotons for weeks at a time, allowing for a slow and secure moving process. Most antimatter experiments based at CERN produce antiparticles by accelerating and colliding protons. The trap design so far would be able to store one billion antiprotons at one time, which is over 100 times more than existing technologies allow for. To complete this grand voyage, CERN researchers are developing a technique in which they "lock" antiprotons in a "bottle." Obviously, the antimatter can not touch the sides of the container, so they would instead be suspended by magnetic and electric fields in a vacuum, not unlike the vacuum of space. While that may only be a few hundred meters from its starting position, to the site of a nearby project known as ISOLDE, the trip will require at least four years of intensive research and preparation. CERN scientists are getting ready to transport antimatter to a new location, using the strange substance in a new experiment. The PUMA project will take antimatter on its first journey. This is why CERN has designated a special project for this exact task - the antiProton Unstable Matter Annihilation (PUMA) project. Here, antimatter is produced in a number of different experiments, but capturing, storing, and transporting it is an enormously ambitious task. Image Credit: Julien Marius Ordan/CERNĪt CERN, scientists operate the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. ALPHA is part of a broad programme at CERN’s antiproton decelerator investigating the mysteries of one of nature’s most elusive substances. Preparing the "bottle" that will transport antimatter. The ALPHA experiment at CERN reported today that it succeeded in trapping antimatter atoms for over 16 minutes: long enough to begin to study their properties in detail.
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