Physicists working on the ALPHA experiment at CERN have trapped and accumulated 15,000 antihydrogen atoms in less than 7 h. This accumulation rate is more than 20 times the previous record. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/iKgP50XvMEC
I got two! It looked like another CQCB opportunity but this time they closed access to the ticket very fast 😜
Two people in harnesses and helmets installing a large particle detector into a cryostat with a crane. There are many cables and pipes on top of the detectors.
#JobAlert #HEPJobs I'm searching for a colleague!
It's a postdoc job on detectors and software for antimatter measurements, based full-time at CERN
inspirehep.net/jobs/2895608
I'm happy to answer any questions in DM.
So who wants to install the detectors with me next time?
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This is what I sometimes give as an example of what is science good for: if there is a new problem, experts with years of experience can potentially solve it within minutes. Starting from scratch would take too long!
But for that, science needs support=money for "doing the useless things" 👩🔬🧪⚛️
Haha, another perfect mail chain, they will just miss C'EST QUOI CE BORDEL 🤣🤣🤣
#onlyAtCERN
Haha, that would be super cool! Like, Nobel-price-wrothy innovation if we learned to do so much :)
But yes, theoretically, that would be a lot of energy, awesome for space ships!
You can read about BASE, one of the experiments also on CERN news home.cern/news/news/ex...
and I'm sure they will also publish updates when it's done with antiprotons
The biggest danger here is just batteries and electricity (comparable to electric car) and liquid helium that is at -269C but that simply evaporates when it heats up🎈🎈🎈
So would I want it in my back yard? Yes, please! 😂
No danger at all, the energy from annihilation is currently so small that we need very sensitive detectors to even see it. Experiments planned next year talk about transporting 10^9antiprotons, a gram would be 10^23 so we are very far from any dangers :)
Exactly! It's less than Joule of released energy, mostly in form of particles flying out undetected and decaying fast... A radiation detector like Geiger-Muller counter would maybe beep once, that's it 🙃
And to do 1g as in movies, that would take us millions of years at current rates