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Antihydrogen's light spectrum seen in detail for first time
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Friday, 4 August, 2017
Scientists with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have reported the first detailed study of light spectrum of antihydrogen, antimatter counterpart of the ordinary hydrogen atom having opposite charges. The set of hyperfine spectral lines studied were found to match those in hydrogen very well. The experiments aim to ascertain why antimatter doesn't exist in the same quantity as normal matter.
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