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Exotic Antimatter Detected at RHIC

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Re: Exotic Antimatter Detected at RHIC

Post by CharmQuark » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:33 pm

This Pleases me :thumbup:
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Re: Exotic Antimatter Detected at RHIC

Post by March_Hare » Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:20 am

For the El Reg fans here's the link
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Re: Exotic Antimatter Detected at RHIC

Post by Tau » Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:01 pm

Wow cool. Not only did they create an anti-strange quark, but actually a complete anti-deuterium nucleus with strange quark in it...
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Re: Exotic Antimatter Detected at RHIC

Post by Harbles » Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:25 am

Excellent news which hopefully the LHC will confirm later in the year (nov 2010) http://lhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch/lh ... e_v1.4.pdf when they collide lead ions.

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